Theology That Bites Back
I am a day or so early with my book-of-the-month selection, which I am doing so as to not clutter up the first part of November next week. I hear other stuff is going to be happening then. For being early like this, I resolutely refuse to apologize. Let me tell you first how I …
Introduction: So the book I have selected for this month is the latest offering from Peter Zeihan entitled The End of the World is Just the Beginning. It is, in turns, exhilarating, encouraging, provocative, and horrifying. Even if you don’t buy his thesis wholesale, it remains a fascinating and informative read. This is his fourth …
In case you can’t make out the subtitle on the cover there, it reads, “A Liturgy for Daily Worship.” This book, Be Thou My Vision, is a wonderful tool for family worship. Not only is it a tool, but it is an adjustable tool. The first part of the book is made up of 31 …
So I feel like a ten-year-old boy who has found, on the very same day, a perfect throwing rock and also a huge nest of hornets under the eaves of his house. The atmosphere is electric, but the obvious thing to do is to just let fly, and keep the comments closed. This book was …
This is a book that is required reading for every Christian who is active in politics at the local level. Although postmill thinkers excel at thinking about the long game, it is possible at the same time to neglect the possibility of the three-yard gain. The possibility of such neglect will be greatly reduced if …
As many of you know, I preach from the King James Version of the Bible. If any of you are interested in learning the basic reasons why, this little book should do it. When I was working through these issues surrounding all this, lo, these many years ago, I read a boatload of material from …
My choice this month—since the times are so tumultuous, and because Kamala Harris is being dispatched yet again to make the Ukraine situation better—is a book calculated to cheer you up a bit. It is called The Storm Before the Calm by George Friedman. This is not a Christian book, and so for the full …
One of the characteristics of writers—okay, okay, quirks, have it your way—is that they are frequently junkies when it comes to reading books on how to write. There are books devoted to dialogue, books devoted to plotting, books devoted to story arc, books devoted grammar and sentence structure, books devoted to the writer’s life, and …
This book is an exercise in moderate extremism, or perhaps you might want to call it radical moderation. There are truths out there in the world that—twenty years ago—everyone either knew or pretended to know. And, as you should know by now, an extremist in 2022 is a moderate of twenty years ago who refused …
In Tolkien’s great masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, we certainly know who the bad guys are. Orcs are hard to misidentify, as are the Nazgul, or Gollum, or Sauron. The bad guys are straight up bad. In a similar way, we know who the good guys are. We know that Sam is good, and …
