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thoughts are not merely about how to update your increasingly out-of-date iPhone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...
Arthur Herman, How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It (aff). New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001....
Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. (aff.) New York: Scribner, 2016. 349 pages.
Angela Duckworth, a professor of psychiatry at the
University of Pennsylvania, studies grit and...
Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. 386 pages.
This is the latest book by the New York Times best-selling
author Malcolm Gladwell. I have...
