It’s pretty easy to domesticate or even romanticize Jesus’ call to those first disciples–to those fishermen who would become fishers of men. We’ve seen enough flannelgraphed versions of those jolly men tending their nets that we now imagine they were made for such a call–as if they were just out of work seminarians waiting around…
You can tell a lot about a literary culture by its used bookstores; they are something like the fossil record of a reading public. And one of the things that regularly astonishes me is what you won’t find in used bookstores in the United States: contemporary British authors. Nowhere is the old adage (“two countries…
If I had gobs of money just lying around, and a slightly more seared conscience, I could be easily sucked into the world of literary collecting, ardently acquiring the secularized equivalent of relics. I could see my home office becoming a kind of reliquary, lined with first editions and decorated with all sorts of artifacts–say…
While I have the utmost respect for the Book of Common Prayer–probably the single most important expression of historic Christian worship in my own life–lately I’ve been using a new resource for prayer: Seeking God’s Face: Praying with the Bible Through the Year. Compiled by Philip Reinders, one could think of it as a Reformed…
Colin McGinn’s review of V.S. Ramachandran’s new book, The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human is both appreciative and appropriately critical. McGinn rightly calls Ramachandran to the mat for his unwarranted reductionism and his over-reaching claims, while also affirming the bodily basis of consciousness. He ends with an excellent question: Why…
When I was at the Geneva School in Orlando this past January, I sat down for an extended interview about Christian classical education, initiated by Christopher Perrin from Classical Academic Press and the Institute for Classical Schools. They’ve rolled out audio of these conversations (video to come). You can listen to the entire conversation (45…