Carl Honore wrote a book with an intriguing title, In Praise of Slowness. It’s not a Christian book, but it’s offers many insightful sociological observations that affirm the wisdom of God’s command that we “be still” (Psalm 46:10a). Honore says that the western world today is stuck in fast forward and obsessed with speed. That every moment of the day feels like a race against the clock. He observes that we used to dial, now we speed dial; we used to read, now we speed read; we used to walk, now we......

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