Five hundred years ago this spring, printed copies of the first English New Testament translated from Greek reached English soil. Hidden in sacks of flour, bales of cloth, and barrels of oil, they passed quietly up the River Thames. Carried ashore by faithful merchants and Lollard believers, they soon flooded London. 

It was 1526, and England would never be the same. What arrived on those ships was more than ink on paper. It was the powerful Word of God.

We live in a culture that moves quickly—sometimes relentlessly so. News cycles refresh by the hour, conversations are abbreviated, and even meaningful moments are often rushed through on our way to the next obligation. We skim headlines, scroll past thoughts, and move on before anything has time to settle.

That hurried pace doesn’t just affect our schedules; it shapes how we process truth. We hear good things, meaningful things—even life-shaping things—but we rarely linger with them. We consume and move on.