Introduction: Here's the plan, guys. I am going to begin with a brief review of Andrew Isker's book, The Boniface Option . After that, I am going to interact a bit more with Rod Dreher's review ...
Isker, Dreher, and Me
Book of the Month/July 2023
My pick this time around for my book-of-the-month selection is God’s Battalions by Rodney Stark. The subtitle alone should be enough to give any thinking Christian a desire to read it now—”The Case for the Crusades.” Somewhere down near the bottom of my to-do list is my desire to write a short little book entitled …
Book of the Month/June 2023
Anthony Esolen is one of my favorite living authors, and this book is yet another example of why. The title is No Apologies. If you would be so kind as to take a gander, as the kids say, at the subtitle, you will catch a glimpse of what I mean. Living as we do in …
Book of the Month/May 2023
One of the drums that I have been beating for some decades now is the drum that seeks to make the somewhat percussive point that the Founding Fathers of our nation were not the collection of Deists—contrary ...
Book of the Month/March 2023
This book is something of a mixed bag, but I really profited from reading it, and so I can cheerfully recommend it to you. What I brought away from the book was that the sins were largely the sins of Hilaire Belloc and Cecil Chesterton, Gilbert’s younger brother. The author does prove that both of …
Book of the Month/February 2023
Many moons ago, I wrote an article for the magazine Antithesis, in which I argued that the Solemn League and Covenant had been broken and set aside by a disobedient people, but the covenant had not thereby evaporated. I was therefore exceedingly pleased to see that someone had written a small book that made the …
Book of the Month/January 2023
One of the things that separates Jews and Christians is that the Christians have seen the various messianic streams of the Old Testament as all coming together as fulfilled in Christ. In the understanding ...
Book of the Month/December 2022
From time to time I have confessed, or perhaps acknowledged would be a better word, and perhaps I am taking too long to come to the point, that I read dictionaries. I suppose you could categorize this as a guilty pleasure, but guilt is not really the right word. Sheepishness is more like it. Today’s …
Book of the Month/November 2022
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 …
Book of the Month/August 2022
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 …