The Next Story Blog Tour – this week!

by Andrew Rogers

Next Story, Tim ChalliesAll this week reviewers across the blogosphere will be posting their reviews of Tim Challies’ The Next Story: Life and Faith After the Digital Explosion. Check out the review links below and follow me on Twitter to follow the discussion.

The Next Story Blog Tour:

Eric Rowell.net 
Anxious for Nothing -
Is there such a thing as too much information?
Living Hope - “One of the most important books you need to read right now.”
Changed by the Gospel - “I do NOT think you should read this book if you are not willing to give some serious thought about how technology is affecting your life.”
Delving into the Scriptures -”Technology changes society in a way that cannot be undone.”
Mike Southerland 
Wick I AM
 - “I plan on reading portions of this book again, and recommending it to others.”
The Squirrel Factor
Beggar to Beggar 
 -”The best part about this book is that it doesn’t leave you in a state of technological conviction. Instead it gives you several helpful approaches to engage you and your family and help navigate the seas of seemingly endless technological options.”
G.A. Dietrich 
The Biblical Bookshelf
All Things Considered
(Love this blog name! And the similarly named NPR program. – AR)
The Blog of Doug Hibbard
Focus Minded 
Blogging Theologically 
The Hankins Family 
Theologica    
MGPC Pastor 
Lux Lucet En Tenebris
-” The latest and greatest will not give us joy, peace, security, happiness and often times it steal it away.”
Gleanings of Wheat -(This blogger actually blogged through the whole book. This link is her wrap up with links to other posts. Wow! -AR)
Bring the Books 
Kevin Fiske [For the Gospel] 
Against Nothingness -
“3.5 Stars. Worth reading.” (Don’t miss this challenging review! -AR)
Simul Iustus Et Peccator -”A must-read…”
Think Theologically 
Mere Orthodoxy
The Hurricane Report 
-”made it required reading for the kids at my house this summer.”
The Lens of Truth 
Theology for the Road

34 Responses to “The Next Story Blog Tour – this week!”

  1. Hey, you forgot to list me! I think I was even the first one to have it done!

    http://www.gadietrich.com/2011/05/the-next-story-by-t-challies-book-review/

    I’m also doing a giveaway.

  2. My apologies that my link wasn’t active the hour I expected it to be – there was some issue with the WordPress automatic scheduling. It’s live now: http://www.thebiblicalbookshelf.com/2011/book-review-the-next-story-tim-challies/

  3. Hey Andrew, not part of the tour, but if you’d like another link to a review of Tim’s book, here you go: http://www.bloggingtheologically.com/2011/05/24/book-review-the-next-story-by-tim-challies/

    • Kristina – WOW! Thanks for spending so much time with TNS. I hope it was really meaningful for you and for your readers. I can’t thank you enough.

      I just read your last post. The part about “The Digital Footprint” is absolutely the most compelling idea in this book for me. The fact that “the Internet never forgets” has made re-think everything I do online. All my Amazon searches, my blog posts, and the pictures I upload to FB. In short, I do all of that less and with greater discernment!

  4. I will have my review up by Friday.

    • Thanks, Craig. How long have you had the new background on your blog? I almost didn’t recognize the site!

      • Well I’ve had it since I secured the site almost two years ago. You might have me mixed up with someone else. At least I think I have always had that one:) No worries. Finished the book last night and will have the review done by morning.

      • I changed it sometime in Lent. It went with the colors of the season and just grew on me.

  5. Craig – What?! I must be going crazy then….or there’s another blog out there name Simul Iustus Et Peccator – though I doubt it!

  6. I just posted mine, I wanted to engage it a bit more, and probably will post again on it later this summer after reviewing it again.

    http://nathanielclaiborne.com/book-review-the-next-story/

  7. I normally get e-mails about blog tours and I did not get one about this book. Did you forget me?

  8. Loved the book and have made it required reading for the kids at my house this summer. Thanks for the opportunity to review this!
    http://hurricane-camille.blogspot.com/2011/05/next-story.html

  9. I’m sorry I am a bit late in posting this review, but better late than never, right? :)

    http://reflectionsjen.blogspot.com/2011/06/book-review-next-story.html

  10. I’m also late with my review, but since you were good enough to send me a review copy of the book, I thought I should let you know that I followed through–a little late. I’m thinking a late review is better than no review:

    http://annetteselden.blogspot.com/2011/06/book-review-next-story-by-tim-challies.html

  11. Andrew,

    Thanks for responding to my review! Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you…part of that has been due to a decrease in internet time. ;) My husband and I are still fleshing out what boundaries should look like in our situations. As an IT professional for a bank, he is on call 24/7. However, some of the more obvious boundaries which we have more formally acknowledged would be not using technology when we’re gathered around the table together, limiting gaming during the week, etc. Personally, I’ve unsubscribed from a number of blogs in order to keep my time online at a minimum.

    I wish I had something more conclusive to share, but, as I said, we’re still prayerfully considering further application.

    Thanks again for the opportunity to review this book! We’d love to hear about some of the boundaries that you have established as well.

    Warmly,
    Elizabeth

    • Thanks for the response, Elizabeth. It sounds like the boundaries you’ve started with are pretty good. I especially think it’s important that you are “prayerfully considering” boundaries. I know it’s easy for me to sometimes read a book and then quickly decide to make lifestyle changes without actually praying about it at all(!).

      We don’t have any hard and fast rules right now. If there’s a place we need to tighten up it’s probably not the internet (because outside of work we’re not on much), but rather TV. It’s too easy to let that thing run in the background….

      Andrew

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