Title: Psmith in the City Author: P. G. Wodehouse Genre: Fiction Release Date: 2003 Pages: 201 Psmith in the Cityfinds the inimitable Psmith working at a bank and determined not to let honest toil depress him. Standard Wodehouse fare, and very good. This was different, however, in that it contained no Wodehouse female of any …
To Join the Orgy Porgy
A couple of stories came to my attention today. One was the decision of California to require a verbal yes at every stage of sexual activity on their college campuses. And if that doesn’t work, they will toughen the law, requiring a “yes, oh yes!” at every stage of the proceedings. Certain tropes are like …
Smash the Complementarity
Before smashing the patriarchy becomes mandatory, may we take a few moments to ask what it is? The current push is to get reasonable Christians to back away from it because they reject what is done in the name of it by the outliers. But however carefully reasonable Christians distance or distinguish themselves from the …
The Pickwick Papers
Title: The Pickwick Papers Author: Charles Dickens, Mark Wormald, Genre: Fiction Publisher: Penguin Release Date: 1837 Pages: 800 Four bumbling members of a nineteenth-century London social club, known as the legendary Pickwick Club, journey to places outside the city and become involved in romantic foibles, danger, and a few legal scrapes. Okay, so I have …
Or Rhode Island Either
Withershins
C.S. Lewis observes somewhere that there are two different motivations for spreading the political power as thinly as possible. The first is the motive of the sunny democrat, one who believes that man is the repository of wisdom, and that before we do anything of a civic nature, we ought to check in with as …
George Grant in Spokane
Here is something for all our friends in the Spokane area. My friend Dr. George Grant will be speaking there on Thursday, October 9. You all are invited to come hear him as he inspires those involved in the trenches of Christian education through the story of Jan Amos Comenius. For more information click here The Oaks Classical Christian Academy …
Prayer is Not for His Information
“God knows everything already. He is the source of everything already. The reason we pray to Him is that He wants us to learn this” (From To You and Your Children, p. 198).
A Mind-Bending Apologetic
The Hound of Heaven is premiering in London later this week at the Raindance Film Festival, and you can see the trailer for it here at The Hollywood Reporter. It is a short film, so it will not be releasing in the usual theater way. When it is available I will beat the drum here …
Book of the Month/October 2014
Hunter Baker does very good work. This new book is called The System Has a Soul. His earlier book The End of Secularism was really worthwhile, and now he is out and about with this collection of essays on similar and related themes. Secularism is completely bankrupt, and the more people we can get to …