Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
Book-reviewer extraordinaire Tim Challies has just launched a new site devoted to book reviews appropriately titled The Diet of Bookworms. Looks like a place I’ll be visiting frequently. Read about the launch here. Nice job, Tim.
Tim Challies of the eponymous Challies.com is giving away Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology and Richard Ganz’s 20 Controversies That Almost Killed A Church. To enter the drawing for the books, sign up here before March 17th, 2005. Enter referral I.D. # 41225.
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. You can view all posts from this series here. There are certain characters in the canon of Western literature that are instantly recognizable by mention of their surname. The names of Crusoe, Nemo, Copperfield, Ahab, Sawyer—all evoke … Read more
I haven’t yet read Michael Crichton’s new novel about environmentalist conspirators, State Of Fear, but it’s on my wish list. The Christianity Today review of Crichton’s book by Read Mercer Schuchardt is good overall, but this line in particular struck me: Crichton deftly reminds us that today, only fiction writers can tell the truth. This … Read more
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. You can view all posts from this series here. If, in some parallel universe, I were held down kicking and screaming and demanded to sum up the work of Flannery O’Connor in a single word, the word … Read more
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. You can view all posts from this series here. If Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings really was, as Tolkein himself held, devoid of any hint of allegory; and if Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress displayed allegory to the extreme; … Read more
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. You can view all posts from this series here. Walker Percy’s writing is ready-made to get under one’s skin, and Lancelot is no exception. Far removed from the Knights of the Round Table, Percy’s 1977 novel is … Read more
Although I read more in kindergarten than I have in the last month (having a child causes “adjustments” in one’s reading schedule…), I still consider myself a bit of a bibliophile. While my love of books is scrupulous (I never, ever write in my books–not even my Bible!), something I love almost as much are … Read more
John Rabe points to some free online offerings by Crossway Books which include a number of John Piper’s books! Also available for free is the forthcoming When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy. I’ll agree with Rabe in that Piper is excellent, and if you’ve never read any of his works due … Read more
In an age such as ours, when boys grow up to be either “wimps” or “barbarians,” where is the modern-day knight? Does he even exist? If so, then what does he look like—how does he act? These are all questions explored by Brad Miner in his new book, The Compleat Gentleman: A Modern Man’s Guide … Read more