It was a quiet afternoon in the Christian bookshop where I help as a volunteer. We didn’t have the book the lady was asking for, but could order and post it on to her. Did we have the other book she wanted? No, but again it could be obtained.
It was then that she exclaimed sadly that the Christian bookshop that she had frequented in her town a few miles away had just had to close.
This had been a sad day for her and other Christians in her town. As we did not have the books she wanted, she announced that she would order them over the internet! I was upset; while there is nothing wrong with internet shopping, this is one of the reasons why Christian bookshops are in crisis, a serious matter, as it is one of the ways that Christian literature can be made available to the general public, Christian and non-Christian alike.
