Author: Jen Wilkin/The Christian Coalition
Jen Wilkin/The Christian Coalition
Jen Wilkin is an author and Bible teacher from Dallas, Texas. She has organized and led studies for women in home, church, and parachurch contexts. An advocate for Bible literacy, her passion is to see others become articulate and committed followers of Christ, with a clear understanding of why they believe what they believe, grounded in the Word of God
Jen Wilkin/The Gospel Coalition In November 1900, Mark Twain delivered a speech titled “The Disappearance of Literature” to the students at Connecticut Wesleyan University. With signature slyness, he told them, “I don’t believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don’t want to. That’s something that you just want to take on trust. It’s . . . the definition of a classic—something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” Twain was noting the beginning of the illiteracy rockslide that we now witness as an avalanche. The statistics we see in the age of…