A mini review (and reflection upon) Robert E. Lee & Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, by Ty Seidule. How pervasive is the narrative of the Lost Cause? And how true is it? Robert E. Lee & Me tells the story of one man’s coming to grips with history. Seidule, professor emeritus of history at…
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I love setting goals; it’s my favorite part about the end of a year. Since childhood, I’ve embraced my dad’s teaching on goal-setting wholeheartedly. I’ve written on this website about 5 simple things to consider as you set resolutions for the new year. How Did I Do? So, this year, as usual, I looked over my last year’s goals to…
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As always, this booklist is not a list of every book I read this year. This is a collection of favorites. While I didn’t achieve my goal of reading a Puritan writer’s work in full this year as I have been in past years, I did meet many of my reading goals. I also encountered some new writers who have…
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A short-and-sweet summary of one of my favorite novels this year, All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. “…what pretensions humans have! Why bother to make music when the silence and Wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them?” Young Werner wonders this while staring at the beautiful buildings in Vienna,…
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A mini review of The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom, a memoir by one of my favorite singer-songwriters, Andrew Peterson. The delight of a memoir is in making connection with one’s own life—the question, “What? You too?!” answered in the affirmative. I resonated with Peterson’s expression of his deep childhood loneliness caused, in part,…
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