Atomic Habits is definitely a work that lends itself to a morally neutral overview of the science behind willpower, and we should not kid ourselves to the contrary.More
Category Archives: Books
Book Review: ‘The Undoing Project’ by Michael Lewis
Kahneman and Tversky’s collaborative work and findings are the subject of the Michael Lewis book ‘The Undoing Project’ – well-written and skillfully told.More
Book Review: ‘Woke Church’ by Dr. Eric Mason
Eric Mason’s idea of a conversation about race is like that of so many other Woke folk I’ve been friends and family to – a one-sided lecture rather than a genuine back and forth.More
Book Review: ‘Christianity and Wokeness’ by Owen Strachan
Strachan outlines clearly and thoroughly here how wokeness is distinct from and contrary to Biblical doctrine concerning God, man, sin, and salvation. More
Book Review: Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg
Gregg covers two critically important subjects here: the relationship between rationality and religious belief for one, and the legacy and destiny of the West for another.More
Home Library Reorganizational Philosophy
Between homeschooling and my wife having been a librarian in another life, plus the both of us loving to hit up used bookstores, we have more than a few titles in our home.More
Truth Stranger Than Science Fiction
It occurs to me the more I consider this that the truth in our day is much like the plot of a dystopian piece of science fiction. How else do you explain the double-speak and double-think? More
Book Review: ‘Jesus and John Wayne’ by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
As Dr. Du Mez sees it, so many American Evangelicals set aside their concerns about morality to vote for Trump because they never really cared about those things to begin with.More
Book Review: ‘A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful’ by Edmund Burke
Burke bids us stop and smell the roses here, and appreciate their thorns, then see the illiberality of the other sciences moderated with a fuller and more soulful humanity.More
Homeschool Dances, Hiking in the Mountains, and Burke On Beauty
Some Billie Jean and Rick Astley combined with perhaps too much lemonade, but made their telling of the whole business pure comedic gold, and their mother and I laughed until we cried.More