The great need of the hour is for Christians in North America to get a map in their heads, a map that has an x on it, that x indicating “you are here.” Related to this, we need to know how exactly we got here. We need to be oriented, and that means we need …
Democracy in America
Title: Democracy in America Author: Alexis de Tocqueville Genre: History Publisher: Everyman's Library Release Date: 1994 Pages: 828 A study of our national government and character follows the author's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals and provides insight into the rewards and responsibilities of a democratic government. Justly a …
Presidential Transition in Higher Education
Title: Presidential Transition in Higher Education Author: James Martin, James E. Samels, Genre: Education Publisher: JHU Press Release Date: November 30, 2005 Pages: 288 "No one to my knowledge has brought the thinking on presidential transitions together in a scholarly work that equals this volume... This insiders' view is enlightening, useful, and well worth the …
Memory: Fragments of a Modern History
Title: Memory: Fragments of a Modern History Author: Alison Winter Publisher: University Of Chicago Press Release Date: September 11, 2013 Pages: 330 Thought-provoking book. A good historical treatment of psychology’s pursuit of what memory means. Enjoyed having some of my unexamined assumptions kicked in the butt.
The Gospel Ministry
Title: The Gospel Ministry Author: Thomas Foxcroft Genre: Religion Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria Ministries Release Date: June 1, 2008 Pages: 90 Originally published: A practical discourse relating to the gospel-ministry. Boston: Printed for Nicholas Buttolph, 1718. Good, sturdy soul food for ministers.
On Taking Your Chimp to the Beautician
Liars are usually clever — you have to give them that. And one of the things the really smart ones know how to do is to use the last lie you caught them in as a basis for getting you to believe the lie they are currently telling. Take the specter of Jim Crow laws …
Not a Level Playing Field
“In short, Jesus got to call them white-washed sepulchers and they did not get to call Him a demon-possessed drunkard in return, even though some modern neutrality-mongers might want to say that fairness required it” (Rules, p. 96).
Book of the Month/April 2015
The mind of G.K. Chesterton was a field of corn. Not only was he a prolific source of thoughts, each one a stalk of corn, but each one of them contained hundreds of kernels, each of them capable of multiplying as well. He didn’t just write a lot — he was fruitful. He was at …
Ickybod
Usually Jonah Goldberg talks good sense, but yesterday I heard him defending the Indiana law as nothing more than a pitiful little consolation prize for the religious right. He was saying that the same sex mirage juggernaut has carried the day, and all conservatives are asking for now is the right to be left alone. …
Culture War — Now More Than Ever
In 1992, Pat Buchanan put the phrase “culture war” on the map with his speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention. Since that time, there’s been a lot of water under the bridge, but — we should be careful to note — it is all the same river. One of the things you may have …