A discipline I’ve had to learn later in life is when to STOP reading a book. Too often I felt “obligated” to finish a book once I had started it. I would often read a book because it had come highly recommended and I wanted to plow through it, but it was just a huge chore.

Other times I’ve tried to plow through “classics” because it was a book on every list of “Books to read before you die” or something like that.

Quite frankly, I’m running out of time and so I just can’t keep doing that. And I deeply regret that on Collin Hansen’s book on Timothy Keller, Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation. I wrongly assumed it would be more biographical, much like Winn Collier’s marvelous biography of Eugene Peterson.

I found a quote about Keller and his approach to ministry I used in a recent post, but after that… it was just defense after defense of Reformed/complimentarian theology. Collin Hansen is just another “Theo/bro” (as I like to call Reformed MEN who just love hammering away on the greatness of Reformed theology in every context possible), and I had to quit.

I wanted more Keller. Good grief! I wanted more Jesus! And Hansen just wasn’t having it.

So… I wasn’t having any more of Hansen.

I’ll wait for a real biography of Keller.