There is one thing that the reader may count on when picking up one of Chesterton's novels, and that is simply that there is no way of knowing what to expect. There is always an air of mystery, of danger, of humor, of depth, and without fail a little absurdity brought about in attempt to … Continue reading Book Review: Manalive – By G.K. Chesterton
This book has been sitting on my shelf for about three or four years. I had expected it to be rather trite and boring fluff. I was glad to have been proven wrong. Every person has the desire to know that they are fulfilling their purpose in life; The Call, as the subtitle suggests, is about … Continue reading Book Review: The Call – By Os Guinness
Imagine for a moment being told that your history book is wrong because archaeologists digging in Georgia have discovered evidence that the United States previously allowed slavery. You would rightly scratch your head, because anybody who knows anything about U.S. history knows that slavery has always been one of its defining features. A similar scenario … Continue reading “The Bible was WRONG”… or Not; Religious Illiteracy in West Reaches New Low
In his classic work Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton asks whether one can “hate [the world] enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing?”In this quote Chesterton - likely much to his chagrin - expresses something more in line with the reformer Martin Luther, setting Christ and culture in a paradoxical … Continue reading Sacred & Secular: How Should Christians Interact With the World?
My new favorite podcast - along with Mere Fidelity and The Partially Examined Life - is Pete Holmes' You Made It Weird. It's an absolutely fabulous podcast, where comedian Pete Holmes just sits down and talks with a guest for two or three hours (usually on the topics of comedy, relationships, and God). A few … Continue reading What Evangelicals Can Learn From Rob Bell (and why they hate him)
Over the past few years I've read almost every work written by Chesterton. This book, however, stands above the others as having been my first glimpse into his paradoxical yet brilliant mind. I was first exposed to it in a video-game, Deus Ex, which coincidentally turns out to be one of the greatest video-games ever created … Continue reading Book Review: The Man Who Was Thursday – By G.K. Chesterton
The ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus did not happen in a vacuum, but rather they were set in various historical and political contexts. The primary time period which helped develop the context in which John the Baptist and Jesus lived was the period between the 5th Century BC - this period saw many … Continue reading Scripture in Context: Second Temple Judaism
With such a well-beloved author as C.S. Lewis positing this book as one of the great contributors to his conversion to Christianity one can't help but give into the curiosity to delve into the mind of Chesterton. During the early Twentieth Century four of the biggest writers were H.G. Wells, Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc and … Continue reading Book Review: The Everlasting Man – By G.K. Chesterton
There are no shortage of books on the topic of leadership. Indeed, pointing out this fact is the first thing that most books on leadership seem to do. These books also point out that there is a crisis of leadership in the world today, such as having traded true leadership for celebrity. In order to … Continue reading The Art of Christian Leadership
Christianity & Liberalism is what might be rightly called the pinnacle of the Christian defence for orthodoxy. The landscape in which the book falls into is one of increasing religious Liberalism, a movement which overtook Christianity in the years following the Enlightenment up through the early Twentieth Century (and even into the present) in the … Continue reading Book Review: Christianity & Liberalism – By J. Gresham Machen
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