restless reformer

Library book sales rock.  I’m increasing my library by leaps and bounds for very, very cheap.  An amusing story to go along with this:  Sometimes I take Sophia with me to the library.  Visiting the Gates Library sale, I had all the books in a bag, and Sophia was bopping around the room and generally […]

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Canon press is offering their books in full on Google Books. When I discovered this, I intended to read just a few pages of Leithart’s Against Christianity. A third of the way into the book, I realized I hadn’t stopped after a few pages.
HT to Mike Frizzell

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Official Andrew Peterson Website
Order “On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness” HERE
Read An Excerpt HERE
Author Bio HERE
There are a lot of great things to say about Andrew Peterson’s book, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. I’ll stick to three things in particular: storytelling patience, storytelling skill, and storytelling philosophy.
Storytelling […]

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Apparently the Great Old Ones and the shoggoths are in favor of simple country life:
Evidently their scientific and mechanical knowledge far surpassed man’s today, though they made use of its more widespread and elaborate forms only when obliged to. Some of the sculptures suggested that they had passed through a stage of […]

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Anne Rice converts to Christianity, writes a few books about Jesus, and then returns to vampires. Which is exactly what she should do, really. The problem is the statement she made right after returning to her faith:
I would never go back, not even if they say, ‘You will be financially ruined; you’ve got […]

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I love old, public domain books.  I prefer to have them as books, though, even though I can get them for free on a computer screen.  David Warlick suggests using the self-publishing company, Lulu, to get your hands on public domain books for cheaper:
Now, lets step back even further to a world of writing that […]

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On overload right now. I’m planning two massive posts in the near future: “Post Pauldom Depression,” and something on Christian Theology and Libertarianism. I have all these thoughts during the day, but by the time I’m sitting down late at night to have a beer and write, it’s all jumbled. Maybe I […]

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It took me a long time to read this because I only wanted to read it when I had time to digest, take notes, and write. Inspiring stuff!
When you buy a CD, you always know you’re running the risk of purchasing a few skippable songs; the same is true for a book of […]

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Here’s the list!  I’m probably missing a book or two, because I sort of lost track a bit.

Richard N. Fogoros: Electrophysiology Testing
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (reflections at SoG)
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets […]

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I’ve put together an Amazon.com store that gathers books that either I have read or are by authors I recommend, as well as my current reading list. I try to find the best price on them, so if you’re looking for books, clicking over to Amazon by checking here would be a great idea. […]

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Just in case you’re interested, for some odd reason.
Major Props to Ben S, tech elf at SoG, for getting the Rochester City Skyline up as the new banner.

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“The land and sea, the animals, fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests, mountains and rivers, are not small themes…but folks expect of the poet to indicate more than beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects…they expect him to indicate the path between reality and their souls.”
~ […]

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Os Guinness: Prophetic Untimeliness

C.S. Lewis: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

C.S. Lewis: The Silver Chair

Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

John P. Sartelle: Infant Baptism

J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Donald Miller: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Gregg Strawbridge: The Case For Covenantal Infant Baptism

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Dan Brown: The […]

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Myth #3: Arminianism is not an Orthodox Evangelical Option
Does anyone really believe this?  I guess there are some who do, but I have to wonder whether this kind of thinking isn’t on par with using Charismatic Chaos to characterize the entire charismatic world.
The area in which Calvinists are most likely to dismiss Arminian theology as […]

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Myth #2: A Hybrid of Calvinism and Arminianism is Possible.
“The plan fact of the matter is that on certain points classical Calvinism and classical Arminianism simply disagree, and no bridge uniting them can be found; no hybrid of the two can be created….between Calvinism and Arminianism there is no mutual compatibility. Logic will always […]

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