This finishes the 16 HBW books I have out of the 19 he wrote. This was his last book written in 1942 about a man who owned and saved the Red Wood Forests, opting for the sublimity of the ageless past over the lurid and fast-paced future. (I collect HBW books and am looking for […]
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Popes & Bankers
The sub-title to this book is: “A cultural history of credit & debt, from Aristotle to AIG.” I was given this book by a friend and I found it quite interesting. I think everyone ought to read something in this field once in a while. Cashill starts off explaining the laws of usury in the […]
The Inklings of Oxford: C.S. Lewis, J.R...
Photographs by James Ray Veneman I acquired a curious taste for C.S. Lewis some years ago which helped me in reading and reasoning. I also found G.K. Chesterton at that time, and the two together took a lot of my time. I never got the same satisfaction from Tolkien., not even from his slimy and […]
Reading God’s Word
The Bible is the greatest treasure in the world today. By it we know of eternal life in Jesus Christ and by it we can make sense of our world both in the past, the present, and the future. John Newton once wrote, “A child that has read the Bible knows more than all the […]
William Holmes McGuffey and His Readers
I have a special interest in William McGuffey because I (and my siblings) spent eight years in the McGuffey elementary school in Oxford, Ohio. The School is located on the campus of Miami University where my father was a professor from 1955 to 1985. McGuffey taught at Miami from 1826 to 1836 in the field […]
Day by Day with Jonathan Edwards
One reading habit I have tried to maintain is to read through a “daily” reading book each year. This is the second book in this series that I’ve read and have enjoyed them both (the first being the Early Church Fathers). Jonathan Edwards may be hard enough for someone to read, especially from his theology […]
The Copper Scroll
This is the second “novel” I’ve read by Joel Rosenberg. He is the author who wrote The Last Jihad which depicted Islamic terrorists crashing airliners into US buildings, but written before 9/11. With that notoriety he has written a series of biblically oriented books depicting last days scenarios. I read The Ezekiel Option which gave […]
Choosing Your Author
Choose your author before you buy the book. I recently read a new book about the bubonic plague and its effects on the history of Europe. While there were interesting tidbits, a common theme of the book seemed to rotate around one curious idea, that the plague produced the mindset for modern medical science. Why, […]
The Cherokee Trail
Older Novels My son-in-law gave me my first Louis L’Amour book, The Cherokee Trail which was historical and rather good. It is a western, of course, but it deals with the history around Ft. Collins, CO where I pastored for 18 years. I didn’t know if I would like L’Amour but I did and will read some […]
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Older Novels Two books by Harold Bell Wright were Their Yesterdays, the most philosophical of his books yet, and The Winning of Barbara Worth, the most interesting yet. I read The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox, Jr. since I saw it constantly at used book stores, and enjoyed it. My son-in-law gave me my first Louis […]