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January 2018

January 02, 2018

Washington Irving is still a master

While I don't closely follow what's being taught in our schools these days (despite regularly...

November 2017

November 17, 2017

Reason and the Soul: Cicero on human nature

Cicero on reason, emotion, and how to properly orient human nature.

October 2017

October 20, 2017

The Will Still Bound 500 Years Later

Why you should read Martin Luther's "Bondage of the Will"

October 17, 2017

18 Christian Books the Intellectually Curious should ACTUALLY Read

What Christian books should be read by the intellectually curious? These, of course!

October 10, 2017

The soft corruption of the church

An ancient writer speaks to the problems of modern politics and church life

October 06, 2017

“Duties of Parents”: A Dutch Classic on Raising Children

A Dutch theologian's guidelines for parents.

October 03, 2017

A Classic Writer on Disciplining Children

A Dutch pastor on how to discipline children with love, wisdom, and justice.

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Reflections on Mice

Redwall is a great book that we should all read.

November 2014

November 10, 2014

Recovering the Classics

A credentialed professional scholar of literature who hasn’t forgotten how to read great books and...

November 25, 2013

C.S. Lewis and the Feverish Passion of ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’

Which is better: passion or commitment? (Hint: It's a trick question.)

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Quoth Nathaniel Hawthorne: ‘Burn, Baby, Burn’

A great American author strikes a match and watches the world go down in flames.

August 2013

August 21, 2013

The Once and Future (Totally Depraved) King

In which everyone is awful, and King Arthur very nearly becomes a Calvinist

July 2013

July 22, 2013

The Woman in White and the Sassy Single Sister

Can you have a happily-ever-after without Prince Charming?

March 2013

March 14, 2013

Chasing the Orgastic Future with Jay Gatsby

Review of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The first time I read The Great...

March 13, 2013

The Romance of the Noble Savage: The Deerslayer

Review of The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper Five white people are holed up in a...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Slaughterhouse-Five

Review of Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut By COYLE NEAL Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in...

January 16, 2013

Kafka’s World Without Grace

Review of The Trial, by Franz Kafka By PAUL D. MILLER A hundred years ago,...

January 03, 2013

Pride and Prejudice and Blitzkrieg: Tolstoy’s War and Peace

Review of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy By PAUL D. MILLER War and Peace is...

October 2012

October 17, 2012

The Source of Sanctification: Human or Divine?

Review of The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett By ALEXIS NEAL Mistress Mary, quite...

September 2012

September 20, 2012

Madam Bovary

Review of Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert By PAUL D. MILLER [Spoilers] Emma Bovary is an idiotic,...

September 14, 2012

Riders of the Purple Sage

Review of Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey By ALEXIS NEAL Young, beautiful Jane Withersteen...

September 04, 2012

The Philosophy of Murder

Review of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky By PAUL D. MILLER Crime and Punishment...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

The Age of Innocence

Review of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton By PAUL D. MILLER Why does...

August 24, 2012

Huck Finn – When Great Books Were Fun

Review of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain By PAUL D. MILLER Great...

August 20, 2012

Epic Men

Review of The Song of Roland By PAUL D. MILLER The Song of Roland is...

August 13, 2012

Wuthering Heights

Review of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë By PAUL D. MILLER Wuthering Heights was voted Britain’s...

August 08, 2012

Robinson Crusoe

Review of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe By PAUL D. MILLER I love this book....

July 2012

July 31, 2012

David Copperfield

Review of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens By PAUL D. MILLER “Whether I shall turn...

July 24, 2012

The Aeneid

Review of the Aeneid by Virgil By PAUL D. MILLER Reading Homer feels like spending...

July 19, 2012

Dostoevsky and Sandusky: The Christian Anthropology of The Brothers Karamazov

Review of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky By JUSTIN HAWKINS “See, this alone I...

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