Since this is the time for New Year’s Resolutions and because, if you order this book on Kindle, you can have it today, and because it is an outstanding book, the book of the month selection for January 2016 is Do More Better by Tim Challies. The book really is practical and helpful. Productivity guru …
Gates Unguarded
In my most recent interaction with John Piper’s views on guns, I said something in passing about the “heirs of the reconstructionists.” Having been asked what I meant, or more importantly what I did not mean, I thought I needed to clarify a bit more. I was responding at that point to Gary North’s post …
Review: If I Were You
If I Were You by P.G. Wodehouse My rating: 4 of 5 stars Always fun, but this was funner than most. View all my reviews
Book of the Month/November 2015
I regularly get books sent to me in the mail, and lots of them look good to me. That means that I am glad I now own them, and look forward to the time when I might read them. But occasionally a book is sent to me that I just have to read right away. …
Review: Royal Insignia: Ninety Eight Readings On The Believer’s Credentials Humility, Brokenness, Nothingness, Destitution, Lowliness, Etc
Royal Insignia: Ninety Eight Readings On The Believer’s Credentials Humility, Brokenness, Nothingness, Destitution, Lowliness, Etc by Edwin F. Harvey My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book was a good selection of readings on humility, taken from a wide variety of authors. The quality therefore varied, but there was a lot of good stuff here. …
Review: The Return of the King
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien My rating: 5 of 5 stars Not sure how many times I have enjoyed this trilogy, starting when I was in high school. Just finished it yet again. Just magnificent. I am thinking through a companion book to What I Learned in Narnia — What I Learned …
Review: The Riot and the Dance: Foundational Biology
The Riot and the Dance: Foundational Biology by Gordon Wilson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don’t usually read biology textbooks (as in, never), but I read this one because my brother Gordon wrote it. Unlike other textbooks, the kind written by a committee of soulless engineers trying to write a phone book, the …
Review: The Abolition of Man
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis My rating: 4 of 5 stars Excellent. Read various times. Just listened to an audio version in the fall of 2015. View all my reviews
Review: A Conservative History of the American Left
A Conservative History of the American Left by Daniel J. Flynn My rating: 4 of 5 stars A fascinating tour of the left wing of the American mansion. We have had a great array of glorious weirdos. View all my reviews
Book of the Month/October 2015
I had the privilege a few weeks ago of speaking together with Anthony Esolen at the Illinois Family Institute. His talk was fantastic — he has the kind of subtlety that is vigorous, lively, understandable, and brave. He is not like that scribesnpharisees seminar prof doing nuance to beat the band, watching his own hand …