There was an old lp involving Tim Weisberg and Dan Fogelberg a long time ago. It was entitled Twin Brothers from Different Mothers.  This book mighty have had that title, because as it turns out, there are a lot of similarities between President Obama, and Bruce Springsteen, in terms of their upbringing, their absentee fathers, there strong mothers, their finally finding a good life partner, their dedication to their families including their children, their great love of all sorts of... Read more

Jonathan Edwards has often, and rightly, been recognized, as the greatest theologian in the short history of America.  While John Wesley did not agree with some of Edwards Calvinistic dogma, he was fully appreciative of his famous ‘Narrative of Surprising Conversions’ originally entitled A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton (1737)which chronicled the 18th century revival in New England.  His work on ‘Religious Affections’ was also seminal in the... Read more

This is what happened when Weed was legalized for other than medicinal purposes in Colorado. Read more

Kudos to Marc for finding this. Read more

REVIEW OF DOUG MOO’S, A THEOLOGY OF PAUL AND HIS LETTERS (Zondervan, 2021, 784 pages) Doug Moo has labored long in the Pauline vineyard, producing a plethora of articles, and commentaries, particularly on Romans and Galatians, and unsurprisingly, basically from a very traditional Reformed perspective on those documents.  More on this in a moment. What we have in this particular volume is an exegesis of the whole Pauline corpus (all 13 books, all of which Doug believes can be rightly... Read more

    LOST AND FOUND Sin is always hungry That longing, that desire It’s never satisfied It’s like a constant fire.   Lust, or greed, or hatred Jealousy or pride They brook no interference No rules do they abide.   Soon the sinner finds He ignores the do’s and don’ts He’s not just a consumer He’s consumed by what he wants.   The mind asks politely ‘What then is yet in store?’ The answer comes back constantly ‘Just a little... Read more

Revenge, it has been said, is a meal best served cold.  But what revenge also does is make the perpetrator’s heart grow cold, and ruthless. This novel is all about various forms of revenge, taken by women against men who have abused women and sold them as chattel into prostitution, in other words, human trafficking, and revenge taken against women who enabled such wickedness, or got in the way the fury of the revenge taker.  Mother Midnight is the assumed... Read more

Paul Doherty is a masterful writer of medieval historical fiction.   He deals in this and other novels with the early 14th century, and with the two King Edwards.  This one is set in 1312 when King Edward II rules, sort of. It would be better to say that chaos rules.  Edward is losing a war on the border against the Scots, and meanwhile, while the king’s away….. the underlings do their bidding.  This novel centers on the actual famous theft... Read more

Richard Macksey was a real professor at a brick and mortar University, a good one– John Hopkins. He of course had access to their library and other vast libraries in the Baltimore and D.C. area.  But this didn’t stop him from having an excellent personal library of over 50,000 books, not to mention a portrait of Da Vinci (I think). See the photo above.  While I am not a techniphobe, and have no issues with people reading books on Kindle,... Read more

It rarely if ever happens that a movie gets an 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but the recent star-studded spoof, the Lost City has gotten it.  The critics are falling all over themselves to praise this movie, and rightly so. If you are old enough to remember movies from the 80s this one is a take off on Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile and just as enjoyable. Filmed in the Dominican Republic complete with bugs, leeches, snakes,... Read more