Review: White Noise
White Noise by Don DeLillo My rating: 4 of 5 stars I am not smart enough nor skilled enough in literary criticism to explain why this book merits four stars. I did feel while reading that I was in the presence of a truly superior intellect. But I'm gonna try to say something anyway. It's clever. I particularly liked the trope of the family discussion filled with malapropisms. And the impossibly erudite extemporaneous speech from pretty much every character that manages to flow smoothly,...
Review: Date Your Wife
Date Your Wife by Justin Buzzard My rating: 3 of 5 stars A book of its gospel-centered time, and I think that's mostly pretty much all good. But not completely. Like those dramatic, one-sentence paragraphs. I'm about to issue a Protestant fatwa against those. And I felt it was a little fuzzy on the exegetical connection between the Creation Mandate and Buzzard's subsequent application: that a man's most important job in this world is to promote the flourishing of his wife. Can I be a good...
*The 1,000th Post Mega-Prize Giveaway!*
I have reached post 1,000 on my blog! A lot of those thousand posts are little things like links and quotes, but a lot of them are dense with prose I created myself, as bloggers do, using an old-fashioned recipe of 2 parts keyboard and 3 parts research opinions coming from a dense region near the top of my head. To celebrate my 1,000th post, I am giving away at least two prizes, maybe more. The first person to comment on this post will receive Michael Horton's brand new, hardback Pilgrim...
Natural Law
A growing (?) number of conservative evangelicals are becoming aware of natural law arguments in the public square. These arguments are attractive because We know from experience that bringing up the Bible directly in public debates won't likely get us anywhere. The Bible itself gives pretty clear support for basic natural law ideas, such as the conscience (Rom 2:15). I've been reading J. Budziszewski's Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law and C. S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man, and...