By: Graeme Goldsworthy (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 1991) Summary: “How do you interpret Scripture?” This is a much more revealing question than “What is your view of Scripture?” Graeme Goldsworthy, an Australian Anglican who is an Old Testament scholar, offers...
Rice, Condoleeza, “This moment cries out for us to confront race in America”, Opinions, Washington Post (June 4, 2020). Jacobs, Alan, “not so much”, blog posting on Snakes and Ladders (June 7, 2020). All of us have thought at one time or another over the past few...
By: A.O. Scott (New York: Penguin Press, 2016) A.O. Scott, the chief film critic for The New York Times, had a problem. He had written a negative review of the famous Avengers movie of several years ago, a movie which proceeded to make $1.5B at the box office...
By: Tom Holland (New York: Basic Books, 2019) Books abound on the making of the Western world and its mindset. Now Tom Holland, who has written two well-respected popular histories of events in classical times: Persian Fire, about the Greco-Persian wars of the fifth...
Directed by: Christopher Nolan OK, so we’re back in socially distanced, mask-wearing theaters! The first movie I want to review I went to see twice, partially because of the lack of any other interesting films, but at least partially because it begged for multiple...
By: N.T. Wright (New York: Harper Collins, 2018) Biography writing is a fascinating study in itself. Sometimes biographies are simply histories of the times in which a person lived. So little is known about the person or the writer is just not interested in the...
