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April 2018

April 06, 2018
A quiet—very quiet—story about the limits of parental love.
April 03, 2018
My first foray into the extensive set of works by Mercedes Lackey has been an...

March 2018

March 29, 2018
‘Ready Player One’ is busy—very busy—proving that the filmmaker, now in his 70s, can still...
March 27, 2018
A Review of David Brin's "Kiln People"
March 23, 2018
A review of Steven Soderbergh’s “Unsane.”
March 19, 2018
It sends up Communist ideology with glee, but shows a tendency toward corruption, insularity and...
March 16, 2018
A review of "The Big Book of Bible Stories for Toddlers"
March 09, 2018
I don't know if I should be glad that Crossing to Safety is the first Wallace...
March 06, 2018
Jodocus van Lodenstein had two things going for him: 1) a Harry Potter-esque name that...
March 02, 2018
A review of Joel Beeke's 'How Do We Plant Godly Convictions in our Children?'

February 2018

February 27, 2018
I've blocked out roughly twenty years of my life (give or take, and should the...
February 23, 2018
'Annihilation' tackles big questions—without pat answers.
February 21, 2018
A few brief reflections on the death of Billy Graham
February 20, 2018
Audiences can enjoy grim humor. But is there a limit?
February 16, 2018
As I'm continuing to read through the Redwall series, Mossflower, Mattimeo, Mariel of Redwall, and Salamandastron all drive home...
February 13, 2018
Short thoughts on Sally Lloyd-Jones 'My Merry Christmas.' Very, very short thoughts.
February 09, 2018
Over at the ISI site, Jessica Hooten Wilson from John Brown University has put together...
February 06, 2018
Despite enjoying short stories, I've never been much of a fan of essays. A good...
February 02, 2018
Most of us know Augustine through either the Confessions or City of God, and maybe on rare...

January 2018

January 30, 2018
If you're looking for a book to listen to while re-grouting the tiles in your...
January 26, 2018
A Review of The Solace of Open Spaces
January 23, 2018
with C.R. Wiley's recent post about Harry Potter. If you've not read it, you should...
January 19, 2018
I like to think that the author of Solaris would agree with me that the main...
January 16, 2018
Christian Hamaker's Top 20 Movies of 2017
January 12, 2018
Denominations have fallen on hard times these days. Even as traditional Christianity is on the...
January 08, 2018
An Interview with Keith Getty on the state of music in the modern church.
January 05, 2018
Science fiction has always been a discordant jumble of optimism and bleak despair. On the...
January 02, 2018
While I don't closely follow what's being taught in our schools these days (despite regularly...

December 2017

December 22, 2017
The best books I read in 2017--or, what you should be reading in 2018.
December 15, 2017
In defense of an 'establishment' figure.
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