8/7/11 Meanwhile I am also reading In Memoriam AHH, which I started reading due to the famous phrase ‘Nature red in tooth and claw,’ quoted in Darwin’s Origin of Species. This is a very interesting

The ‘English Novel’ course (Timothy Spurgin) caused me to read ‘Waverly’ by Sir Walter Scott, the inventor of the historical novel. This is the first of about 50 books he wrote. One other one that

The Powers That Be, according to some reader reviews on Amazon, summarizes the 3 earlier ‘powers’ books, in which he identifies what in the Bible are referred to as demons or evil beings, are actually

In theological terms, his achievement (Reinhold Niebuhr) was to perpetuate the old liberalism, adapting it to the civic religion of the 1950s, when anticommunism became a kind of national faith. (This civic faith led to

In Memoriam A.H.H. is a poem by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet”s Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage

Making Sense of Scripture, David J. Lose (ELCA book) Praying the Catechism, Donald W. Johnson Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Dristof and Sheryl WuDunn Christianity for the Rest of Us, Diana Bass Searching for God

1969: The Year Everything Changed by Rob Kirkpatrick Winter”s Children 1. Nixon”s Coming – Cambodia bombing 2. Something in the Air – New right and new Left 3. The New Sounds – MC5, Crazy Horse,

”Emotion has dictated the course and detail of my book, and in emotional writing one arrives at the unpredictable which can be of more value, since its sources are deeper, than the products of the

WIND UP GIRL (2009) Author: Paolo Bacigalupi A modern dystopian classic, Bacigalupi describes a world where catastrophes are commonplace, global warming has caused huge sea level rises and biotechnology rules, with mega corporations – calorie

Sunday, November 15, 2015 – A People’s History of the United States (Zinn, Howard) By the years of the Revolutionary crisis, the 1760s, the wealthy elite that controlled the British colonies on the American mainland