The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Depends what you want. Personally I found Tim Keller's The Reason For God very helpful. It's written as a practical, down-to-earth discussion of Christianity in the modern age. https://www.amazon.com/Reason-God-Belief-Age-Skepticism-ebook/dp/B000XPNUZE?ref_=ast_author_dp
On the other hand, if you want something really meaty, consider Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self and A Secular Age. They're mostly social history and philosophy rather than straight apologetics, but considering western modernity from the outside and seeing how all the parts worked and where they developed from made a big difference to me. That was what really allowed me to take Christianity seriously; until that point the apologetics were just an intellectual curiosity.
And certainly would be interested in a book club. I know much less than I'd like about christian teaching through the ages, especially in comparison to someone like @FarNearEverywhere and I've been meaning to read more for a while.
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