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  • Philosophy Friday: Dare to Know

    As I was preparing for my post about Liberty’s philosophical demise, I was reminded I used to do a series called Philosophy Friday. I’m not going to link to any of those posts because they’re mostly from 6 years ago and you shouldn’t read them (but I suppose the search bar does work). But, I…

  • Three Books You Need to Read (Sooner Rather than Later)

    I recently shared a memory on Facebook of reading The Inevitable. It is one of the few books I’ve read in one sitting (Hillbilly Elegy is another one). I both remember sitting on the beach reading most of it in one sitting and then excitedly telling my senior class about it the next week. Part…

  • Some of My Best Reads from 2018

    I read 125 books in 2018, which is below my average of 150. Part of that is because I actually spent more time doing other things. The other part is that I spent more time in my morning routine reading the Bible. Over the course of the year, I read the entire Bible once, and…

  • Christmas Book List: New Titles from Lexham Press

    As we finish out this first week of Christmas book list recommendations, this post will be a bit shorter. The stack you see is smaller, so maybe that is a propos. Recently, Lexham Press starting sending me titles. I didn’t initiate this process, but I’m not mad at it. Hopefully, I can figure out who…

  • Christ and Pop Culture Member Perks: These 8 Books

    For several years now, I’ve been writing for Christ and Pop Culture. While I wish I had more time to write full length articles (this was my last one), I’ve been mostly consistent in doing a brief monthly write-up of books for members. If you support the website on a monthly basis, you have unlimited…

  • Why You Need an Anti-Library

    As I sit and write, this is generally my view. I could of course look out the window to my right, which I often do in anticipation of the mail coming. That’s usually because the mail brings books, which at this point overflow their shelves. Thankfully, those books are most often provided by gracious publishers.…

  • 2017 Reading Challenge: July Update

    You may have noticed I accidentally posted this last week with only three book titles. Obviously, that was a few days worth of reading, not entire month. And actually, this month ended up being the peak of the year so far. Rather than blurb each of the 20 books, I’m going to list them and…

  • The Well-Educated Mind: Science

    I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that most people couldn’t tell a very coherent version of the story of western science. Sure, certain names (Aristotle, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Einstein) could be pieced together. But in terms of the flow of thought and discovery, I don’t think most of us are there.…

  • The Well-Educated Mind: Poetry

    One of the little known facts of a good seminary education is that you learn to read poetry. It is one of the predominant genres of literature in the Bible, although often in books no one reads (e.g. most of the prophets). While there are some rather obvious differences between Hebrew and English poetry, some…

  • 2017 Reading Challenge: June Update

    For the first time in a while, I focused more on writing than reading this past month. I had intended to post Monday through Friday all month, and other than last Wednesday and Thursday, succeeded. I did however still read quite a few books. 12 to be exact, which is 79 for the year. That…