{"id":4849,"date":"2021-09-20T19:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T02:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaymenslounge.com\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T21:41:32","slug":"byron-borger-to-be-a-christian-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaymenslounge.com\/byron-borger-to-be-a-christian-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Borger: To Be A Christian Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: 82. Byron Borger: To Be A Christian Everything\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/5VRBX8Z1UXnpyE7vLEPiR5?si=cBRb3vZoRcK8E0_nVd_bDg&#038;dl_branch=1&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSomewhere in central Pennsylvania there is a warm and inviting labyrinth called Hearts &amp; Minds Bookstore. Byron and Beth Borger, the caretakers of Hearts &amp; Minds, have worked there tirelessly for over three decades to create a space for serious, reflective readers. The Borgers are committed to helping their customers live out Christ\u2019s Lordship in the midst of our highly secularized, postmodern culture. They have carried out this mission through their shop, mail-order services, and book tables at conferences around the country. Their unremitting efforts to offer quality books for thinking biblically about every area of life has inspired a volume on this, their bookstore\u2019s thirty-fifth anniversary. One of the many ways Hearts &amp; Minds has blessed their customers has been through <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartsandmindsbooks.com\/booknotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BookNotes<\/a>. <\/em>In those reviews, Byron shares colorful anecdotes and passionate arguments for why to read books, and amplified lists suggesting what books to read. In this book, the Borger\u2019s friends have adopted the<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartsandmindsbooks.com\/booknotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BookNotes<\/a><\/em> model and offer a defense for books in their spheres of interest, along with a number of titles for the reader to consider investing their time in for deeper study.\u201d \u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.squarehalobooks.com\/hearts-and-minds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>A Book For Hearts &amp; Minds: What You Should Read and Why<\/em><\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve found Borger\u2019s vocation to be more similar to a pharmacist than a bookseller. People come to Hearts and Minds with one deficiency or another. After some listening, Borger prescribes just the right supplement of Al Wolters or Richard Middleton or an obscure gem hidden in a tacky dust jacket\u2026 Byron is the Michael Jordan of synthesizing ideas. Each [\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartsandmindsbooks.com\/booknotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BookNotes<\/a>\u201d] post is rife with connections: connections between art and faith, between politics and science, between gardening and prayer. Byron is a true interdisciplinarian, a renascence man if ever there was one.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/kuyperian.com\/sin-compartmentalizes-christ-unites-ode-byron-borger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dustin Messer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone loves an American institution. You have CBGBs in NY (started off The Ramones, The Dead Boys, etc.). The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. The Jack Daniels distillery Lynchburg. Wrigley field in Chicago, and you have Hearts &amp; Minds books. An American institution to be sure. There are book stores, and then there is the Hearts and Minds Bookstore. They are, as the tag line says \u201cmore than books\u201d. Listen in as we sit down with the man that everyone wished was their uncle: Byron Borger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>To Buy any of the books we discussed on the show (see below), or to buy any books (ever, again, in all of your life), please reach out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartsandmindsbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hearts &amp; Minds\/Byron Borger here<\/a>. Tell him what you are looking for. You will get a response from a real human who really cares about us (meanwhile Amazon is trying to colonize Mars).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be added to Byron&#8217;s legendary &#8220;BookNotes&#8221; email list please sign up<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartsandmindsbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> here (click &#8220;Subscribe&#8221; on the left hand side of the screen).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaymenslounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hjhhjkjhjk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4851\" width=\"369\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaymenslounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hjhhjkjhjk.jpg 801w, https:\/\/thelaymenslounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hjhhjkjhjk-597x900.jpg 597w, https:\/\/thelaymenslounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hjhhjkjhjk-768x1157.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" 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Byron and Beth Borger, the caretakers of Hearts &#038; Minds, have worked there tirelessly for over three decades to create a space for serious, reflective readers. The Borgers are committed to helping their customers live out Christ\u2019s Lordship in the midst of our highly secularized, postmodern culture. They have carried out this mission through their shop, mail-order services, and book tables at conferences around the country. Their unremitting efforts to offer quality books for thinking biblically about every area of life has inspired a volume on this, their bookstore\u2019s thirty-fifth anniversary. One of the many ways Hearts &#038; Minds has blessed their customers has been through BookNotes. In those reviews, Byron shares colorful anecdotes and passionate arguments for why to read books, and amplified lists suggesting what books to read. 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