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At the advent of Advent, Wheaton College President Phillip Ryken Scales Back to Only Writing Four Books a Week

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At the advent of Advent, Wheaton College President Phillip Ryken Scales Back to Only Writing Four Books a Week
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For this Advent, Wheaton College’s renowned President Ryken has decided scale back from spewing out a seemingly infinite amount of books at any given time, to only four books per week. He was inspired to make such a decision after purportedly, Tim Keller, made the decision to scale back to five books a week http://babylonbee.com/news/tim-keller-scale-back-writing-just-five-books-per-week/ .

After Thanksgiving, Ryken was reported saying, “At the advent of Advent, which marks the advent of the new liturgical year, I have decided to write only four books a week from now until Easter. Then I will proceed to writing to writing an infinite amount again.”

Sources found that the reason for this lessening of the amount of written material produced were so that Dr. Ryken could focus more of his time on his family, Wheaton College, his chapel serials for the next five years at Wheaton College, playing intramural basketball, throwing a surprise parade for the college’s chaplain Tim Blackmon after Tim Blackmon orchestrated a surprise 50th birthday party for Ryken with students, attending every single sports event, recital, or concert on campus, and translating the Bible into Sentinelese. With the advent a new season, Dr. Ryken wishes to accomplish everything on his list and more.

Ryken says that his sabbatical from voracious book writing will end with Easter. After that he will return to his normal book-writing schedule. “It will have been a restful and reflective time for me, my family, and Wheaton College.”

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