Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton. (aff.) New York: Penguin Books, 2004. 818 pages.
This book could be “Exhibit A” for why I love biographies. Ron Chernow is an excellent historian...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to shut down businesses, schools, sports, graduations, church activities, and countless other events. The novelty of binge watching a TV series or having children home from school has lost its luster, and people...
On August 24, 1857,
the New York branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company announced it
was shutting down. Funds at the head office had been embezzled, leaving the
company with massive debt. Banks quickly responded, and the...
On August 4, 1711, the allied forces under the Duke of Marlborough grimly prepared for the worst. The French Marshal Villars had positioned his forces in a seemingly unassailable position behind a river. Cannons lay ready to...
During the fourth century, a deadly plague struck the city
of Caesarea, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the Roman Empire. Panic
ensued, and people fled the city. But one group didn’t panic or flee. The
Christians intentionally stayed....
I was extremely fortunate to grow up in a home that was a
laboratory for godly influence. My father, Henry, was a shy, introverted
Canadian. But God used him to exert enormous influence on others. As his
first-born child, I...
John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. (aff.) Colorado Springs: Waterbrook, 2019. 286 pages.
Lately, I have been coming across more and more books about
slowing down and learning...
2020
Entering a new year is generally accompanied by large doses
of optimism and hope as people consider the various opportunities and
possibilities that lie before them. But 2020 carries with it a certain
foreboding. Many...
Roy Jenkins, Gladstone: A Biography (aff) New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1995; paperback ed. 2002. 698 pages.
I love reading biographies. They are, to me, recreational. In...
A new year is before us! As I get older, it seems like they
come faster every year. Hopefully as you approach a new year, your prevailing
thoughts are not merely about how to update your increasingly out-of-date iPhone
or...
