Cannery Row by John Steinbeck My rating: 4 of 5 stars Great writing, coupled with a great deal of lost. View all my reviews
Which Would Be Unseemly
Information About “The River Thief”
So the movie The River Thief releases today, and I want first to give you information about the movie, and how you can arrange to watch it. I will begin with that general info and a behind-the-scenes discussion about how the movie came to be. Then after that I will make a few comments about …
Not Exactly the Return of Seabiscuit
The only reason why either of the presidential candidates is still in the game is that they each had the very good fortune to draw a terrible candidate as an opponent. And the way the system works, when one of them wins (as it seems one of them must), the world of politicos will not …
The Religious Right Is Dead. Long Live the Religious Right.
In the ongoing aftermath of the ever-generous fiasco that we call the Trump campaign, Russell Moore wrote that if Donald Trump has accomplished anything of value, it is that he has snuffed out the religious right. The first half of his piece says a lot of things that are pertinent, trenchant, on the mark, and …
A Fight in the Leper Colony
Introduction: It is easy to treat the spectacle that is presidential politics in 2016 as though we were dismayed spectators, but we are not spectators at all. We are all participants. We are not watching a movie that contains a food fight in a junior high cafeteria; we are in the cafeteria. And if it …
Tacky Trump Tape
I will have more to say about this, probably Monday, but I did want to take a moment to tell everyone something important. With the release of this TackyTrumpTape, we all ought to sit down, compose ourselves, and on the count of three, put on our surprised face. What about this did anyone find surprising? …
Wealth: Themes in Proverbs II
Introduction: The book of Proverbs is nothing if not a practical book. We find in this book the wisdom of God as it applies to our daily lives, and in this message we will be looking at how divine wisdom applies to your check book. Not only does it apply to our individual check books, …
Review: The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers But the Economy Never Does
The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers But the Economy Never Does by George Gilder My rating: 4 of 5 stars Gilder is always an encouraging author, and this book is no exception. If you have a hunch that the world is run by monetary monkeyshines, this book will make the case. View all …
Too Self-Aware
“J.R.R. Tolkien had a problem, along with C.S. Lewis, and as we should also, with sentences that begin like this” (Writers to Read, p. 75).