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After going to see the movie, DUNKIRK, and being rather depressed by it I decided to read THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK, by Walter Lord. This is the definitive account of what happened in May 1940. If you want to know the true and whole story of what happened I commend this...
MY NEW BOOK – DAY BY DAY
During the summer I have been working on gathering together my unpublished material to put in a book to commemorate the 50th anniversary of my ordination to the ministry. I was ordained at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London on September 29, 1967, the Feast of St. Michael...
WHO READS THE MOST?
A fascinating visual review of sales, reading and book publishing. Which Country Reads the Most?
HILLBILLY ELEGY: A MEMOIR OF A FAMILY AND CULTURE IN CRISIS
Hillbilly Elegy is the second most read nonfiction book on Amazon and has been on the list for eleven weeks. J.D. Vance has written a compelling and eye-opening memoir that is stirring up a lot of controversy. A product of hillbilly Tennessee and Ohio J.D. maintains...
WHAT DISTRACTS US FROM READING TODAY?
This article by Phil Yancey on what distracts us from reading today is timely. http://wapo.st/2vpFhdP?tid=ss_mail-amp
PARENT ALERT – YOU ARE RAISING PERPETUAL ADOLESCENTS
In The Vanishing American Adult, U.S. Senator Ben Sasse, Ph.D. in American history from Yale writes, “I believe our entire nation is in the midst of a collective coming-of-age crisis without parallel in our history. We are living in an America of perpetual...
SEVEN WISE WISHES FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaking at his son’s middle-school graduation, June 3, 2017 From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal...
THE DEMONIC EVIL OF ATHEISM
Karl Marx I have become more convinced that the greatest threat to Christianity in the West is not Islam but atheism. More and more younger people are responding to censuses as “No Religion” or “Nones”. They have naively absorbed the secular teaching of the...
AN EXAMPLE OF PASSIONATE WORSHIP
My brother-in-law, Captain Bill Weimer, a retired Navy Chaplain who served with the Marines in Operation Desert Storm, sent me this inspirational video of U.S. Marines in worship. Worth sharing. Would that Sunday morning worship was as energetic!...
THE NEED FOR PASSIONATE PREACHING
While on vacation in London I visited the National Portrait Gallery. I was impressed by a series of cartoons of William E. Gladstone, British politician and Prime Minister during Queen Victoria’s reign. The cartoonist showed Gladstone giving speeches in the House of...
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