The Life of Samuel Johnson
Title: The Life of Samuel Johnson Author: James Boswell Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Princeton University Press Release Date: 1992 Pages: 1278 (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) I recently included a “bucket book” in my line-up of books I am reading. These are books I really ought to have read by this time in my …
And Good Theology Makes It Better
“There are many theological assumptions that have to go into a rollicking good yarn” (From The Romantic Rationalist, p. 75).
All In the Institutes . . .
“Susan was not killed in that last railway accident, and we should not speculate about her final destiny unless we want Aslan to growl at us for impudent guesswork about somebody else’s story. And besides, if anybody wants to argue that the ultimate Cair Paravel in the center of the ultimate Narnia only had three …
Three Feet of Partly Cloudy
The real losers last night — not that anyone is likely to take real notice — were the pollsters. This is not the case because we had a wave election, because a number of people were predicting that. The surprises all came in the margins. Races that were not supposed to be close, like Warner …
The Logic Will Out
“He who says A may not have said B, but give him time” (From The Romantic Rationalist, p. 73)
Floral Theology
“Let me take a moment to conduct a very brief tour of the Narnian tulip garden — a place of fond memories for me because this is where I first learned my foundational lessons in the meaning of grace. Now I admit that these are Narnian tulips, so they don’t look quite the same as …
So the Election Is Tomorrow
As you prepare to go to the polls, please keep in mind that a stark choice lies before America. Tomorrow is a critically important election, one in which we shall choose between evil and fecklessness. One the one hand we have the party of death and sodomy, lechery and license, while on the other we …
God Rest Ye Merry
Below is a very kind Facebook post that Kirk Cameron put up. After that are a few more comments from me about the furor his movie Saving Christmas appears to be causing. This was apparently a rumpus we needed to have. Post by Kirk Cameron. Okay, some backstory. Kirk has a movie coming out called …
Book of the Month/November 2014
I really appreciate this book. In it, Rodney Stark applies some of the tools of analytic sociology to a particular historical phenomenon which in this instance matches the title of his book exactly — the rise of Christianity. Full disclosure: I won’t be done with this book for a couple more days, but it is …