Here is a bit of fun business, a great project. A number of our people here in Moscow were involved in this project, including the video -- check it out. … [Read more...]
Review: Selected Poems
Selected Poems by William Blake My rating: 3 of 5 stars Okay, so I read this, and am afraid that it brought me to the conclusion that Blake is overrated. But glad to have read him, and there were some striking lines. Okay, so it was worth it. View all my reviews … [Read more...]
Book of the Month/March 2016
I have read another book by Andrew Pettegree -- Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion -- which I really enjoyed, and I enjoyed this one even more. Brand Luther is well-researched, scholarly, detailed . . . and an easy read. Think of it as a mash-up of history and biography written from the vantage of the early German printing industry. The carrier of the Reformation was books, and how that came to be is the story that this book tells. It is commonly thought that the invention of printing resulted in the Reformation, and there is something to that. But at the same time, a few steps are left out. After the invention of printing in the first half of the fifteenth century, there was a good seventy years of fairly anemic publishing before the Reformation exploded. During that seventy years, the printing industry managed to survive printing scholarly works in Latin for scholars to read in Latin. What Pettegree shows is that in a very real way, the Reformation "made" publishing. … [Read more...]
Review: Phantastes
Phantastes by George MacDonald My rating: 3 of 5 stars I know that I read this once before, many moons ago. But my only recollection of it consisted in the fact that I had read it. I recently decided to read it again because of the impact it had on Lewis. Having done so, I can only conclude that Lewis saw a great deal more in it than I was able to, although I did enjoy it -- particularly the last third. There are some great moments. But it struck me as kind of a fairy land hodge podge, only with the hodge parts and the podge parts packed closely together by hand. Anyway. View all my reviews … [Read more...]
Review: Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott My rating: 4 of 5 stars On my short list of books I am actively reading, I include a "bucket book," defined as a book I really should have read by this time in my life, but which for various reasons, I have not. In this category, I just finished Ivanhoe, which I found quite enjoyable. I think it was also my first Scott novel. Fun. View all my reviews … [Read more...]
Review: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass My rating: 4 of 5 stars Well written & moving. View all my reviews … [Read more...]
Invite to Grace Agenda 2016
Grace Agenda 2016 Announcement from Canon Wired on Vimeo. … [Read more...]
Review: Preaching in the Holy Spirit
Preaching in the Holy Spirit by Albert N. Martin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Very fine little booklet. I commend it to all preachers -- really good stuff here. View all my reviews … [Read more...]
Review: The Prince and Betty
The Prince and Betty by P.G. Wodehouse My rating: 4 of 5 stars Continuing to work my way through the entire Wodehouse corpus, and continuing to enjoy it. View all my reviews … [Read more...]
Review: The Pilgrim’s Regress
The Pilgrim's Regress by C.S. Lewis My rating: 4 of 5 stars Excellent. Finished the audio version in February 2016. In the Afterword, Lewis apologizes for the book, an apology I refuse to accept. Just delightful. View all my reviews … [Read more...]
Why the Angels Speak
"At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore" (Ps. 16: 11) “The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.” (Rev. 1:20). The last verse of this chapter may be considered the introduction to the next two chapters. In this section of Revelation that is opening up, messages are being given to the angels of the seven churches of Asia. We have learned earlier that the Lord Jesus was standing in the midst of seven lampstands (Rev. 1:12-13), and that He also held seven stars in His right hand (Rev. 1:16). We are also told that a sharp two-edged sword came out of His mouth. So we were told earlier that this was the case. In this this verse, we are given the meaning of the mystery, and in the two chapters to come, we are told how the Lord exercises this ministry. Here we are told that the seven … [Read more...]
Review: God Is Not a Story: Realism Revisited
God Is Not a Story: Realism Revisited by Francesca Aran Murphy My rating: 4 of 5 stars Good book, but dense. It is sad that she had to write it, what with so many bright souls writing so much theology with six-syllable words in such a way as to require an answer. But she did rise to the occasion, and we are glad. As modern theology marches steadily toward its terminus of perichoretic atheism, some people just sit there with their fingers in their ears. But Francesca Murphy wrote a book. However appreciate we might be, may the Lord hasten the day when all such books are unnecessary. View all my reviews … [Read more...]
Review: Favorite Poems
Favorite Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow My rating: 4 of 5 stars Enjoyed very much. Particularly like running across well-worn phrases that I presume originated with Longfellow -- ships passing in the night, patter of little feet, into each life some rain must fall. I particularly enjoyed Miles Standish, which I somehow don't think I have ever read before. View all my reviews … [Read more...]
Review: The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond by G.K. Chesterton My rating: 3 of 5 stars I love Chesterton's non-fiction, top drawer stuff. But I must confess that I sometimes find his fiction tedious and contrived, with fun spots here and there. Oh, well. View all my reviews … [Read more...]
Outlaws of Time
Very nice to see Entertainment Weekly featuring Nate's next book, Outlaws of Time. They have an impressive book trailer posted there, along with an excerpt from the book. Coming in April. Check it out, that's what I say. … [Read more...]
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