The Complete Poems by Catullus My rating: 3 of 5 stars If nothing else, Catullus knew how to want things. And where is all of it now? View all my reviews
Review: Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz My rating: 4 of 5 stars As diagnosis, this book is outstanding. Elite education for America’s elite has become a vast exercise in getting our high-achieving students all dressed up for the ball, and then never actually …
Review: The Life of God in the Soul of Man
The Life of God in the Soul of Man by Henry Scougal My rating: 4 of 5 stars Very good book over all, and one with some magnificent passages. View all my reviews
Review: Slavery in Early Christianity
Slavery in Early Christianity by Jennifer A. Glancy My rating: 4 of 5 stars Very good book, a wealth of information. Jennifer Glancy is at times hindered in her analysis by assuming too much purported differences between different authors of Scripture, and this gets in the way at times. She doesn’t reason with any expectation …
Review: Piers the Ploughman
Piers the Ploughman by William Langland My rating: 4 of 5 stars Fascinating glimpse of a very different mental world. I was particularly struck by this very medieval assumption that the Antichrist was going to form in the papacy. View all my reviews
Review: The Kingdom of Speech
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe My rating: 4 of 5 stars A great entertaining read. Wolfe gets off some magnificent and irreverent lines, aimed at the neo-Darwinian hand-wavers. Moreover, he is largely invulnerable to any counter attack from them because the one place he does his own hand-waving is a place where none …
Book of the Month/September 2016
This is a very encouraging little book, pointing to two words that function as the hinge of all gospel living. There is a problem, a dilemma, a crisis, a trouble, and God’s people are up against it. This happens time and again in the Scriptures. And the next two words are but God . . …
Review: The Visionary Christian
The Visionary Christian by C.S. Lewis My rating: 4 of 5 stars Selections from the works of C.S. Lewis. Nancy and I read this together, and it was quite good. View all my reviews
Review: Advise and Consent
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this book one other time, many decades ago, probably in high school or when I was in the Navy. All I remembered about it was that I had read it once, and that it was a political novel about a Senate …
Review: Eutaxia, Or, the Presbyterian Liturgies : Historical Sketches
Eutaxia, Or, the Presbyterian Liturgies : Historical Sketches by Baird My rating: 4 of 5 stars A helpful compendium of historical Reformed liturgies, and their genealogical connections. The author Baird, given the nature of his subject, is not exactly a barrel of laughs, but he does have a little bit of fun with the high …