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Thomas Chatterton Williams: Wrestling with Race and Culture Part Two

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Even if you disagree with him, I think anyone interested in this most difficult of topics would find Williams' thoughts and experiences interesting but it is co...

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The Sun King Conspiracy by Yves Jego and Denis Lepee

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

The Sun King Conspiracy by Yves Jego and Denis Lepee is an intriguing look at the time of Louis XIV of France. Here is a brief summary of the book: Cardinal Maz...

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The Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune by John Merriman

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Jeff Grim / 1 Comment

Somewhere my former European and World History teachers are rolling their eyes because I did not remember learning about the Paris uprising of 1871. John Merrim...

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Fairy Tale (Mont Saint Michel)

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Another gorgeous photo by İlhan Eroglu.

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Paris, City of Light

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

Although Cornwell is known for his fiction writing, he shines in this latest endeavor in historical writing. He is one of the best writers that I know in descri...

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Notes & Asides

  • I really enjoy The Pinkcast. But this one, on dealing with frustration, is particularly useful these days. Check it out.

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  • OK, I am done futzing around with the theme/header/layout/etc. Not that anyone noticed, but back to your regularly scheduled programing...

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  • Highly recommend the three Lord of the Rings episodes from the Great Books podcast. Start with The Fellowship of the Ring episode.

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  • While the laws that we live under matter a great deal, Christians need to recover the primacy of the personal over the political more than anything else. If we can’t love our neighbors in a personal, politically agnostic, face-to-face way, they’ll turn to synthetic and unreal ideological communities to fill the gap left by the loneliness of their daily lives.

    The road back to sanity, solidarity, and social trust on both sides of the political spectrum will involve turning away from this ideological cul-de-sac and back toward personal communities once more. If Christian churches won’t do this, they risk being exploited as political playthings of the powers that be. -- Christianity as Ideology: The Cautionary Tale of the Jericho March

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  • You’ll notice we are not having a national debate about paying off poor people’s mortgages. We could do that just as easily if the self-declared champions of the poor had any interest in anything other than their own status and their own appetites.

    They don’t.

    The College-Debt Debate Is a Culture-War Battle

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