| 333 “Socialism Sucks” | It’s increasingly evident that many Americans now embrace socialism. A 2016 “Harvard survey found that … | 2020/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2020-09-01 09:50:36 |
| 332 “Stripping the Altars”–The Anglican Reformation | Growing up in the Church of the Nazarene I learned we were Wesleyans—a theological position … | 2020/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2020-08-01 10:48:27 |
| 331 Heather Mac Donald | During the past several decades no journalist, said George Will, “has produced a body of … | 2020/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2020-07-01 10:37:00 |
| 330 Reclaiming Common Sense | Dr. Ben Carson, the distinguished Secretary of the Housing and Urban Development department, recently sought … | 2020/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2020-06-01 12:56:16 |
| 329 Humanitarian Woes | During the past two centuries, Man has replaced God in various quarters (including many “modernist” … | 2020/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2020-05-01 11:23:00 |
| 328 Post-WWII America | Few of us, having lived through the last half of the 20th century, would discount … | 2020/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2020-04-01 10:03:58 |
| 327 Re-Writing American History | When we talk about “culture wars” we rarely think about historians as armed and significant … | 2020/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2020-03-01 11:40:00 |
| 326 Wonders of Light, Water, Fire | In the beginning—at a primordial stage of the creative process making heaven and earth—“the Spirit … | 2020/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2020-02-01 11:35:00 |
| 325 Impeachment and the Plot to Remove a President | As the Trump impeachment process gained steam during the past year I perused two scholarly … | 2020/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2020-01-01 10:40:00 |
| 324 Untethered Minds | As a prototypical, optimistic “progressive,” believing the world was getting better and better, and after … | 2019/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2019-12-01 00:42:34 |
| 323 “Social Justice” Casualties | In Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger … | 2019/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2019-11-01 23:07:00 |
| 322 The Myth of the Dying Church | Several weeks ago I began the Sunday school class I teach during the summer by … | 2019/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2019-10-01 23:02:00 |
| 321 Readable Histories | Beginning with the “father of history,” Herodotus, most historians crafted interesting stories designed to appeal … | 2019/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2019-09-01 23:00:00 |
| 320 New Conversations on Faith and Science | Two months ago I attended a conference hosted by Faith Bible Church, a large church … | 2019/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2019-08-01 22:58:00 |
| 319 Suspect “Science” – the Low-Fat Diet | Fifty years ago I regularly read Organic Gardening and Prevention Magazine—back-to-the earth publications urging readers … | 2019/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2019-07-01 22:54:00 |
| 318 Christian Ethics | As is evident in the New Testament, from the beginning Christians have been concerned with … | 2019/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2019-06-01 22:52:00 |
| 317 Facts, Not Fear | Two decades ago, Bjorn Lomborg insisted (in The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of … | 2019/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2019-05-01 22:50:00 |
| 316 Solzhenitsyn’s Witness | Since becoming aware of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 50 years ago I’ve read—and read about—him. He has … | 2019/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2019-04-01 22:45:00 |
| 315 Culture of Fear | One of the more amazing contemporary phenomena—despite our very evident safety and comfort —is the … | 2019/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2019-03-01 22:43:00 |
| 314 Luther’s Reformation and Its Consequences | In his Requiem for a Nun William Faulkner famously said, “The past is never dead. … | 2019/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2019-02-01 22:40:00 |
| 313 Postmodernism, Scientism | When I first encountered “postmodernism” several decades ago I wondered at the sheer irrationality of … | 2019/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2019-01-01 14:51:25 |
| 312 Contempt, Compromised, Hoax | In the 1980s Kenneth Starr was one of the legal luminaries circulating within the higher … | 2018/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2018-12-01 22:26:00 |
| 311 Who Are We? | During the American Revolution, in his celebrated Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John de … | 2018/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2018-11-01 01:18:00 |
| 310 Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians | Throughout the past century a number of discerning thinkers have lamented the immanent demise of … | 2018/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2018-10-01 01:22:00 |
| 309 Hitler’s Ethics, Philosophers, Doctors | When driven to illustrate utter evil in history, many of us simply point to Adolph … | 2018/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2018-09-01 22:33:00 |
| 308 Scalia Still Speaks | As we witness the struggle surrounding President Trump’s recent Supreme Court nominee (Brett Kavanaugh) we’d … | 2018/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2018-08-01 14:49:00 |
| 307 Leon Kass: Living a Worthy Life | “Our society,” said Leon Kass two decades ago, “is dangerously close to losing its grip … | 2018/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2018-07-01 22:20:00 |
| 306 Assessing a Pontiff | Following his 2013 inauguration, Pope Francis I enjoyed widespread adulation, especially in the more progressive … | 2018/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2018-07-01 14:43:00 |
| 305 “Forgetting How to Blush”? | Centuries ago the prophet Jeremiah asked a probing question: “Are they ashamed of their … | 2018/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2018-06-01 09:19:06 |
| 304 “Until Proven Innocent” | The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia described, in A Matter of Interpretation, a case … | 2018/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2018-05-01 09:15:08 |
| 303 “To Know God and My Soul” | Early in his life as a Christian, Augustine wrote a short work, the Soliloquies, wherein … | 2018/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2018-04-01 09:09:00 |
| 302 Unjust “Justice” | One of the recurrent refrains in Plato’s dialogues appears in his Gorgias, where Socrates says … | 2018/03/05 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2018-03-05 09:05:00 |
| 301 “House of Cards” | Over the years I’ve repeatedly reviewed books detailing debates about the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution … | 2018/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2018-02-01 10:07:44 |
| 300 Unchanging Witness | One of the most widely quoted rules in Church History was set … | 2017/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2017-12-01 11:32:52 |
| 299 Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely– Exhibit A: LBJ | Lord Acton (Sir John Dalberg-Acton), one of the most learned 19th century … | 2017/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2017-11-01 11:28:52 |
| 298 Forensic Faith | J. Warner Wallace is a retired Los Angeles County detective, noted for appearing … | 2017/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2017-10-01 11:24:17 |
| 297 Proof of Heaven | Eben Alexander’s Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife (New York: Simon … | 2017/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2017-09-01 11:20:45 |
| 296 Rebuilding the Culture | Anthony Esolen, a highly-regarded, scholarly translator of Dante’s Divine Comedy, has written a … | 2017/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2017-08-01 11:16:44 |
| 295 Vanishing Adults | One of today’s most accomplished United States Senators, Nebraska’s Ben Sasse, has recently published The … | 2017/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2017-07-01 10:58:00 |
| 294 “Strangers in a Strange Land” | Church history records the incessant fluctuations—the triumphs and setbacks, the flourishing and decay—of the … | 2017/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2017-06-01 11:12:31 |
| 293 What’s Happened to the University? | In What’s Happened to the University: A Sociological Exploration of Its Infantilisation (New York: Rutledge, … | 2017/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2017-05-01 10:55:30 |
| 292 “Lo, the Poor Indian” | Reflecting a pervasive Enlightenment perspective—and presaging Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Romantic admiration for America’s “Noble Savage”—Alexander Pope, … | 2017/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2017-04-01 10:50:56 |
| 291 The War on Humans | When, during the last presidential debate, Hillary Clinton defended all forms of abortion (the … | 2017/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2017-03-01 10:47:26 |
| 290 Some Polish Perspectives–Leyutko & Kolakowski | Though Poland as a nation has frequently suffered occupation and exploitation, Polish artists (Chopin) and … | 2017/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2017-02-01 10:42:05 |
| 289 Notable Conversions–Andrew Claven & Sally Read | When I review books I hope some readers find bits of valuable information and … | 2017/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2017-01-01 10:36:58 |
| 288 Debunking Utopia | In Dostoyevski’s The Brothers Karamazov, Father Zossima tried to counsel a distraught woman by encouraging … | 2016/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2016-12-01 10:31:33 |
| 287 The Kingdom of Speech; Undeniable; Evolution 2.0 | For five decades Tom Wolfe has remained a fixture atop the nation’s literary world—helping establish … | 2016/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2016-11-01 10:27:09 |
| 286 Clinton Cash; Armageddon; Stealing America | Peter Schweizer is an investigative journalist with a muckraker’s penchant for pursuing the darker dimensions … | 2016/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2016-10-01 10:22:55 |
| 285 Deadly Notions | Given our rationality, ideas inevitably have consequences and deeply shape human history. In The Death … | 2016/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2016-09-01 10:19:10 |
| 284 Hillary’s History | In a court of law, eyewitness testimony is highly privileged, considered “first-hand” evidence most worthy … | 2016/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2016-08-01 10:08:30 |
| 283 Feminist Fallout | That the unintended consequences of revolutionary political and social movements frequently surpass their original … | 2016/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2016-07-01 10:05:10 |
| 282 A “Republican” Constitution? | Following the work of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a Philadelphian asked Benjamin Franklin: … | 2016/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2016-06-01 11:53:34 |
| 281 Something, Not Nothing | If I stumble over something in the dark, I know something’s there. … | 2016/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2016-05-01 11:44:00 |
| 280 Losing Our Mind? | In 1960 America’s schools were widely considered among the world’s best. Then came the … | 2016/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2016-04-01 11:38:00 |
| 279 Stalin’s Harvest of Sorrow | Since WWII Jews around the world have routinely resolved to “never forget” Hitler’s brutal effort … | 2016/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2016-03-01 11:33:46 |
| 278 Still the Best Hope | Dennis Prager is one of the more thoughtful “talk-show hosts” on radio, sustaining an audience … | 2016/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2016-02-01 11:30:08 |
| 277 Islam’s Cultural Jihad | To understand both Time magazine’s award of its 2015 “person of the year” award to … | 2016/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2016-01-01 11:25:39 |
| 276 We Cannot Be Silent | Heading toward the White House Barack Obama pledged to “fundamentally transform” America. And he clearly … | 2015/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2015-12-01 11:22:18 |
| 275 Poverty & Economy | While teaching Ethics in the 1970s I often used, as a supplementary text, Ron Sider’s … | 2015/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2015-11-01 11:18:38 |
| 274 A Model Historian: Rick Kennedy | During the 42 years I taught in Nazarene universities I was privileged to work alongside … | 2015/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2015-10-01 09:31:31 |
| 273 Laudato Si’: Creation Care | For more than a century, the Roman Catholic Church was led by a succession of … | 2015/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2015-09-01 10:48:51 |
| 272 Thomas Oden’s Reflections | For many decades Thomas C. Oden has been one of the most prolific and significant … | 2015/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2015-08-01 10:44:43 |
| 271 WWII Perspectives | Though not deeply immersed in WWII histories, I’ve always been interested in that era and … | 2015/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2015-07-01 10:35:36 |
| 270 Applying Aquinas | Though we can never reach a consensus determining who was the “world’s smartest man,” a … | 2015/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2015-06-01 10:29:00 |
| 269 Finding God | Years ago Malcolm Muggeridge penned a book titled The Third Testament, providing biographical portraits of … | 2015/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2015-05-01 18:38:00 |
| 268 Flight from the Absolute | Philosophers and educators routinely refer to the importance of one’s Weltanschauung—the philosophy of life or … | 2015/04/14 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2015-04-14 11:24:00 |
| 267 Love Is What We Need | For its first half-century the Church of the Nazarene’s theology was significantly shaped and masterfully … | 2015/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2015-03-01 18:27:00 |
| 266 The Never Enough Pity Party | In Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State, William Voegeli sets … | 2015/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2015-02-01 10:19:00 |
| 265 Miracles and Miraculous Cloths | Eric Metaxis has garnered well-deserved acclaim and awards for prize-winning biographies of William Wilberforce and … | 2015/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2015-01-01 18:16:00 |
| 264 Diana West | Diana West is a Yale-educated journalist, writing a weekly syndicated column with a decidedly conservative … | 2014/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2014-12-01 11:57:00 |
| 263 “Playing God” Environmentalism | As we grow older, we frequently regret decisions we’ve made and causes we’ve … | 2014/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2014-11-01 11:50:00 |
| 262 Israel Today–“Making David into Goliath” | Anyone seeking to understand Israel today should carefully study Joshua Muravchik’s … | 2014/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2014-10-01 11:22:17 |
| 261 Britain’s Best-Known Dissident: Roger Scruton | Considered by some “Britain’s best-known intellectual dissident” for his staunch defense … | 2014/09/14 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2014-09-14 11:19:00 |
| 260 A Scintillating Curmudgeon: Charles Murray | That few conservatives are invited to speak on college and university … | 2014/08/14 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2014-08-14 11:12:00 |
| 259 Making Gay Okay | Few societal changes have rivaled the rapidity with which homosexuality has been mainstreamed in America! … | 2014/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2014-07-01 11:28:00 |
| 258 Things That Matter | One of the nation’s most eminent columnists and TV commentators, Charles Krauthammer, has collected a … | 2014/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2014-06-01 11:09:00 |
| 257 The 21st Century Church | Discerning the face and future of the Church at the beginning of the 21st … | 2014/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2014-05-01 11:02:00 |
| 256 Communist Infiltration | Given the currently aggressive behavior of Vladimir Putin—positioning Russia to recapture some her lost … | 2014/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2014-04-01 10:54:00 |
| 255 “The Experience of God” | One of my best discoveries in graduate school—learned quite apart from my course work—was the … | 2014/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2014-03-01 10:50:00 |
| 254 Disinformation | For two centuries the world has been shaped by currents unleashed in the French Revolution, … | 2014/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2014-02-01 10:25:00 |
| 253 What Darwin Got Wrong | Two distinguished professors of cognitive science—Jerry Foder (Rutgers) and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (University of Arizona)—argue, in … | 2014/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2014-01-01 10:18:00 |
| 252 Admirable Autobiographies | For forty years Michael Novak has been a very visible and influential public intellectual, writing … | 2013/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2013-12-01 10:12:00 |
| 251 Vietnam Revisited | When I began my college teaching career in January, 1966, America’s involvement in the Vietnam … | 2013/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2013-11-01 10:07:00 |
| 250 The Roots of Radical Islam | To understand radical Islam’s emergence during the last half of the 20th century, Lawrence Wright’s … | 2013/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2013-10-01 11:49:40 |
| 249 “Mind and Cosmos” | Academic philosophers rarely grace the covers of newsmagazines, but the March 25 issue of … | 2013/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2013-09-01 11:45:40 |
| 248 “The Rising Tyranny of Ecology” | In 1973, Alston Chase abandoned his academic career—as a tenured philosophy professor with degrees from … | 2013/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2013-08-01 11:41:45 |
| 247 How Liberalism Became Our State Religion | Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and election clearly appealed to and elicited a strongly religious … | 2013/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2013-07-01 11:38:20 |
| 246 Christ the King | For most of his life N.T. Wright—one of the world’s most distinguished biblical scholars as … | 2013/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2013-06-01 11:34:46 |
| 245 Refuting Relativism | While the recently installed Pope Francis urges empathy with the poor he also laments the … | 2013/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2013-05-01 11:24:45 |
| 244 Fewer . . . and Fewer of Us | Among the handful of must-read 20th century dystopian novels—Aldus Huxley’s Brave New World; George … | 2013/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2013-04-01 11:18:36 |
| 243 Scared to Death | Though I routinely recommend various books wishing them widely read, I occasionally finish one wishing … | 2013/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2013-03-01 11:14:00 |
| 242 Nancy Pearcey’s Apologetics | As a restless, questing college student immersed in the relativism and subjectivism of her milieu, … | 2013/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2013-02-01 11:08:47 |
| 241 “Dupes” and “The Communist” | Writing Witness, Whittaker Chambers—one of the most celebrated 20th century repentant Communists who helped expose … | 2013/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2013-01-01 11:03:56 |
| 240 Logic of Liberty | Michael Polanyi (1891-1976), a distinguished Hungarian chemist who immigrated to England in the 1930s and … | 2012/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2012-12-01 10:59:20 |
| 239 “The Spirit of Munich”–Assessing Appeasement | In The Gathering Storm (volume one of Winston Churchill’s account of the Second World War) … | 2012/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2012-11-01 10:54:47 |
| 238 Bad Religion, Toxic Charity, Dead Aid | To St. Augustine: “Prudence is love choosing wisely between the things that help and those … | 2012/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2012-10-01 10:43:07 |
| 237 “Hit the Road, Barack” | A recent issue of Newsweek featured a cover story by a distinguished Harvard historian, … | 2012/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2012-09-01 10:35:32 |
| 236 Stanley Jaki | During his long and prolific (41 books) academic career Stanley L. Jaki, an Hungarian-born Benedictine … | 2012/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2012-08-01 10:31:12 |
| 235 Unprotected | While working as a psychiatrist at UCLA, Miriam Grossman, M.D., grew distressed by the fact … | 2012/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2012-07-01 10:27:00 |
| 234 Calvinism, For and Against | Evangelicals in America have generally divided (notwithstanding myriad subdivisions) into two contending camps: Calvinists and … | 2012/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2012-06-01 10:22:31 |
| 233 Real Education | In Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality (New York: … | 2012/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2012-05-01 10:18:24 |
| 232 Indivisible & Resurgent | The reality of “Evangelicals and Catholics together”—what Baptist theologian Timothy George calls “the ecumenism of … | 2012/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2012-04-01 10:14:18 |
| 231 A Christian America or a Religious Republic? | In The Search for Christian America (Colorado Springs: Helmers & Howard, c. 1989), three eminent … | 2012/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2012-03-01 11:43:00 |
| 230 God and Reagan, Bush, Clinton | In God and Ronald Reagan: A Spiritual Life (New York: ReganBooks, c. 2004), Paul Kengor, … | 2012/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2012-02-01 11:39:17 |
| 229 “A Country I Do Not Recognize” | In his dissent from a 1996 Supreme Court decision, Justice Antonin Scalia lamented: “‘Day by … | 2012/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2012-01-01 11:35:07 |
| 228 Great Men’s Biographies | No 20th century theologian elicits more admiration than Dietrich Bonhoeffer, for whom Eric Metaxas’s recent … | 2011/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2011-12-01 11:30:38 |
| 227 Scrutinizing Naturalism | Plato’s dialogues persistently probe the essence of the good society, and his final treatise, … | 2011/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2011-11-01 11:25:14 |
| 226 “The Burden of Bad Ideas” | One of this nation’s most eminent playwrights, David Mamet, occupies an elevated position in contemporary … | 2011/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2011-10-01 11:19:17 |
| 225 Christopher Dawson | While in graduate school I fortuitously encountered the works of Christopher Dawson, who significantly shaped … | 2011/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2011-09-01 10:59:39 |
| 224 Leviathan Rising | Few of the past century’s developments rival the growth of big government in America. … | 2011/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2011-08-01 10:49:13 |
| 223 Women and the Future of the Family | In 1998 Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, a distinguished humanities professor at Emory University, gave the Kuyper Lectures … | 2011/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2011-07-01 10:44:35 |
| 222 Housing Boom & Bust | In 2002—under the auspices of “compassionate conservatism”—President George W. Bush promoted affordable housing for all … | 2011/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2011-06-01 10:40:39 |
| 221 Intellectuals and Society | “Experts,” according to an ancient and prescient adage, “should be on tap, not on top.” … | 2011/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2011-05-01 12:02:04 |
| 220 Defending Life | For 20 years I showed my ethics students Silent Scream, a moving anti-abortion film narrated … | 2011/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2011-04-01 11:56:57 |
| 219 Reason & Christianity | Rodney Stark, a professor at Baylor University, clearly declares the thesis of The Victory of … | 2011/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2011-03-01 11:52:00 |
| 218 A Divine Invention: Marriage | “There are two rocks,” said F. W. Robertson, “in this world of ours, on which … | 2011/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2011-02-01 11:47:47 |
| 217 Obama Appraised | Whereas journalists generally write books based upon interviews and other journalists’ accounts, Stanley Kurtz … | 2011/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2011-01-01 11:43:41 |
| 216 In the Beginning: Information | Before he retired Werner Gitt was a professor at the German Federal Institute of Physics … | 2010/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2010-12-01 11:38:06 |
| 215 “The Battle” | While Arthur C. Brooks was Professor of Business and Government Policy at Syracuse University he … | 2010/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2010-11-01 11:33:48 |
| 214 Life After Death | “The immortality of the soul,” said Pascal in his Pensees, “is something of such vital … | 2010/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2010-10-01 11:27:45 |
| 213 “The World Turned Upside Down” | Fifty years ago Bob Dylan sang “the times they are a changing,” and indeed they … | 2010/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2010-09-01 11:23:43 |
| 212 Modernity on Trial | Fortunately for the general reader, first-rate philosophers (whose scholarly tomes frequently target a select audience) … | 2010/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2010-08-01 11:19:16 |
| 211 “Money, Greed, and God” | While attending a nominally Methodist university in the 1980s Jay W. Richards easily absorbed (from … | 2010/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2010-07-01 11:12:12 |
| 210 “A God Who Hates” | Wafa Sultan is a Syrian woman who unleashes her anger at Islam in A God … | 2010/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2010-06-01 11:07:31 |
| 209 Roger Kimball’s Cultural Critique | Few things matter more than our “culture.” Few current writers better appreciate its power and … | 2010/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2010-05-01 11:03:20 |
| 208 Love & Responsibility | The late Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), now routinely called “the Great” by many … | 2010/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2010-04-01 10:58:31 |
| 207 Back to Aristotle & Aquinas with Edward Feser | It’s always delightful to discover an erudite scholar engaging his world with wit and wisdom. … | 2010/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2010-03-01 10:54:00 |
| 206 A Signature in the Cell | In 2004, the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, a scholarly journal housed at … | 2010/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2010-02-01 10:49:30 |
| 205 Global Warming Dissenters | “It is useless,” quipped Jonathan Swift, “to attempt to reason a man out of a … | 2010/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2010-01-01 10:45:46 |
| 204 Democracy’s Despotic Drift | Seven centuries before Christ, Lycurgus, the legendary architect of Sparta’s constitution, was allegedly asked why … | 2009/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2009-12-01 10:37:55 |
| 203 “Surprised by Beauty” | One of my great consolations, since my late wife’s death, has been classical music. Often … | 2009/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2009-11-01 10:33:44 |
| 202 Good Friends’ Good Books | Three years ago, Pastor Jim Garlow preached a series of sermons on the hereafter in … | 2009/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2009-10-01 10:27:31 |
| 201 Quantum Physics and Theology | I was recently privileged to spend some time with my good friend Dean Nelson while … | 2009/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2009-09-01 10:21:54 |
| 200 Christianity’s Greatness | In What’s So Great About Christianity (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., c. 2007), Dinesh D’Souza … | 2009/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2009-08-01 10:18:06 |
| 199 In Praise of Pieper | While caring for my mother in her final days I re-read Josef Pieper’s Death and … | 2009/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2009-06-01 10:14:37 |
| 198 Refuting Atheism | Amidst all the discussion of the “new atheism” enunciated by the likes of Sam Harris … | 2009/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2009-06-01 10:10:54 |
| 197 Who Really Cares? | The fact that Vice President Dick Cheney gave away millions of dollars every year (amounting … | 2009/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2009-05-01 10:05:44 |
| 196 Malcolm Muggeridge | Few autobiographies outlive their subjects. Nor do journalists generally write literary classics. So when a … | 2009/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2009-04-01 09:59:48 |
| 195 “Heaven On Earth” | “We are all socialists now,” Newsweek Magazine decrees, so we should at least try to … | 2009/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2009-03-01 09:54:00 |
| 194 Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget | Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP, is a professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University and … | 2009/02/18 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2009-02-18 09:47:28 |
| 193 Bolshevik Agents | As archives and witnesses in formerly Communist lands have become available to historians, we better … | 2009/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2009-01-01 09:42:56 |
| 192 Life After Life | Raymond A. Moody’s Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon—Survival of Bodily Death (New … | 2008/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2008-12-01 09:37:49 |
| 190 Examining Obama | It’s always wise, when hearing politicians speak, to disregard their promises and heed their past … | 2008/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2008-11-01 10:53:19 |
| 191 Depression’s Lessons | In 1883, William Graham Sumner, a Yale professor, noted: “As soon as A observes something … | 2008/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2008-11-01 09:32:47 |
| 189 McCain & Obama | To better understand this year’s two presidential nominees, I’ve read their books. John McCain has … | 2008/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2008-10-01 10:44:27 |
| 188 Revisioning Liberalism | The assassination of John F. Kennedy profoundly changed the nature of America, James Piereson argues … | 2008/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2008-08-01 10:38:40 |
| 187 N.T. Wright re Resurrection | One of the most prestigious and prolific contemporary biblical scholars, N.T. Wright, builds upon and … | 2008/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2008-07-01 10:32:29 |
| 186 Michael Burleigh’s Histories | One of the world’s most distinguished historians, Michael Burleigh, has written a two volume … | 2008/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2008-06-01 10:45:19 |
| 185 Philosophers’ Memoirs–McInerny & Scruton | “The best of a bad job is all the most of us make of it—except … | 2008/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2008-05-01 10:32:37 |
| 184 A Grief Observed | During my wife Roberta’s final days I re-read C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed (San … | 2008/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2008-04-01 10:09:00 |
| 183 Because They Hate | To understand what motivates Islamic Jihadists one should read first-hand accounts such as Brigitte Gabriel’s … | 2008/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2008-03-01 19:41:00 |
| 182 Heaven | As you would expect, I’ve thought much of Heaven since my wife’s death last August. … | 2008/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2008-02-01 11:56:04 |
| 181 Vanauken’s “Severe Mercy” | Following my wife Roberta’s death, the most meaningful book I’ve read is Sheldon Vanauken’s A … | 2008/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2008-01-01 09:54:24 |
| 180 Former Students Write–Fleming, Frisbie, Nelson | One of the joys attendant to aging as a professor is to note the successes … | 2006/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2006-12-01 18:24:00 |
| 179 Our Meaningful World | Whether or not the world is meaningful is a meaningful question. Giving one answer, an … | 2006/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2006-11-01 18:16:00 |
| 178 Hadley Arkes’ “First Things” | One of America’s fines thinkers, Hadley Arkes (a professor at Amherst College), has for decades … | 2006/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2006-10-01 11:49:00 |
| 177 Cultural Deathworks | Few thinkers have more deeply probed the currents of modernity than Philip Rieff, a professor … | 2006/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2006-09-01 18:08:00 |
| 176 “Knowing the Enemy”: Jihadists | Much has been written, since 9/11, regarding the “roots” responsible for Islamic terrorism. Marxists cite … | 2006/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2006-08-01 17:34:00 |
| 175 Are Men Necessary? Dowd, Mansfield, Eldridge, O’Bierne | Though I’d heard about Maurine Dowd (the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York … | 2006/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2006-07-01 10:04:32 |
| 174 Henry Adams’ America | One of my former students—and subsequently a good friend—Allen K. Brown, an attorney in Fullerton, … | 2006/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2006-06-01 10:47:00 |
| 173 The Souls of Our Young | In Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (New York: Oxford University … | 2006/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2006-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 172 American Autobiographies: Buckley; Hillerman; Medved | In 1951, when William F. Buckley published God and Man at Yale, there were millions … | 2006/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2006-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 171 Captialism & Christians | Returning recently from a conference featuring some influential contemporary thinkers, I noticed a book in … | 2006/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2006-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 170 Disconsolate Brits | Recent laments from some eminent British writers provide a somber appraisal of their nation’s current … | 2006/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2006-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 169 Original Intentions – Founding Fathers | As a “new nation” America was uniquely shaped during the first half-century other existence. To … | 2006/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2006-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 168 Europe at Risk | In The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God (New York: Basic … | 2005/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2005-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 167 “Built to Last” and “Good to Great” | I rarely read books on “leadership” or business management, finding them generally focused on “bottom … | 2005/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2005-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 166 Benedict XVI | Following the election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI, I have read or … | 2005/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2005-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 165 Pragmatism’s Founders | American historians generally note that “pragmatism” is this nation’s only uniquely homespun philosophy. Now most … | 2005/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2005-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 164 Rodney Stark’s Church History | For several decades Rodney Stark, currently a sociology professor at Baylor University, devoted himself to … | 2005/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2005-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 163 Churchill & Reagan Speak | Few historians today question the significance of Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan. Both men led … | 2005/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2005-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 162 Global Warming Forest | My father worked as a meteorologist for the United States Weather Bureau. He occasionally … | 2005/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2005-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 161 War Against the Weak | Terri Schaivo’s recent death illustrates the continuation of a process detailed in Edwin Black’s War … | 2005/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2005-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 160 Schroeder’s Cosmology | SCHROEDER’S COSMOLOGY Tremors cascaded through the philosophical community when Anthony Flew, perhaps the world’s … | 2005/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2005-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 159 Secularizing America | SECULARIZING AMERICA In the 1960s, there was significant cultural ferment as Pope John XXIII … | 2005/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2005-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 158 Higher Education Woes | Anyone seriously concerned about the souls of our youth should seriously ponder Vigen Guroian’s recent … | 2005/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2005-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 157 Taking Sex and Home Seriously | “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored,” Aldous Huxley wisely noted, and … | 2005/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2005-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 156 David Horowitz on the Left | DAVID HOROWITZ on the LEFT Few thinkers understand the American Left as well as … | 2004/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2004-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 155 Aussie Academics: Biology; Philosophy; History | Though Australia stands, in many ways, on the periphery of Western Civilization, some … | 2004/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2004-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 154 A Century of Holiness Theology | Everyone interested in the “cardinal doctrine” of The Church of … | 2004/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2004-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 153 Deconstructing The Da Vinci Code | In an era when large numbers of people take seriously the … | 2004/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2004-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 152 Anti-Americanism | ANTI-AMERICANISM Jean-Francois Revel’s Anti-Americanism (San Francisco: Encounter Books, c. 2003) … | 2004/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2004-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 151 Powell & Lodahl: PLNU Theologians | POWELL & LODAHL: PLNU THEOLOGIANS Two of Point Loma Nazarene University’s … | 2004/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2004-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 150 Appraising The Crusades | APPRAISING THE CRUSADES Crusades and crusaders have lately elicited little … | 2004/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2004-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 149 The Case for A Creator | THE CASE FOR A CREATOR In 1959, Chicago hosted a … | 2004/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2004-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 148 Solzhenitsyn’s Warnings | SOLZHENITSYN’S WARNINGS During the 1970s I read most of Alexander … | 2004/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2004-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 147 The Cornucopia of Capitalism | THE CORNUCOPIA OF CAPITALISM As an adolescent, growing up in Stockholm, … | 2004/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2004-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 146 Child Care? Who Cares? | “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, … | 2004/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2004-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 145 The Homosexual Agenda | In 1986, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, writing for the majority in … | 2004/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2004-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 144 Judicial Tyranny? | When he argued the case for the ratification of the United States Constitution … | 2003/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2003-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 143 War Against Terrorism | One of the nation’s finest and most able scholars, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Professor of Social … | 2003/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2003-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 142 P.C. Tyranny | P.C. TYRANNY SmithCollege, an elite women’s school, recently decided to eliminate the … | 2003/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2003-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 141 “The New Faithful” | Just when the advocates of “contemporary worship” and “user-friendly” churches have succeeded in revamping large … | 2003/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2003-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 140 Dylan, Colson, Graham | In unique ways Bob Dylan, Chuck Colson, and Billy Graham have left formative impressions on … | 2003/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2003-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 139 “No Free Lunch” | “NO FREE LUNCH” One of the most self-evident propositions is this: from nothing comes … | 2003/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2003-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 138 Christians and War | CHRISTIANS AND WAR In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis explains the “just war” position I’ve come … | 2003/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2003-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 137 When Character Was King | I never voted for Ronald Reagan and often criticized his policies. Towards the end of … | 2003/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2003-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 136 The Sword of the Prophet | Educated in England, receiving a PhD at the University of Southampton, and doing postdoctoral research … | 2003/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2003-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 135 No Good Men Left? | Barbara Dafoe Whitehead (the author of The Divorce Culture) is one of the premier scholars … | 2003/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2003-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 134 The Battle for the Trinity | We are, by nature, word-shaped and word-shaping creatures. Consequently, we define and debate the … | 2003/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2003-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 133 Real (Christian) Ethics | Most folks readily give “opinions” on various moral topics ranging from capital punishment … | 2003/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2003-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 132 Dissolving Materialism | Materialism, both scientific and philosophical, undergirds modernity. The physical world, ourselves included, must be reduced … | 2002/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2002-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 131 Islam: Past & Present | A widespread scholarly consensus exists concerning the Middle East: to historically understand it one must … | 2002/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2002-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 130 Laws of Leadership | For many years John Maxwell has both exemplified and written about “leadership.” Though his … | 2002/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2002-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 129 The Question of God | For more than two decades Armand M. Nicholi Jr. a psychiatrist and professor … | 2002/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2002-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 128 Gifford Lecture Contrasts: Hauerwas & McInerny | If we believe Time Magazine, Stanley Hauerwas is “America’s best theologian,” indeed, “contemporary … | 2002/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2002-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 127 Ropke’s “Humane Economy” | John Zmirak, in William Ropke: Swiss Localist, Global Economist ( Wilmington : ISI Books, … | 2002/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2002-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 126 Recalling Education | Hugh Mercer Curtler, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program at Southwest … | 2002/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2002-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 125 “Coloring the News” | Years ago a distinguished columnist, Nat Hentoff, received the National Press Foundation’s award for … | 2002/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2002-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 124 George, Finnis, & Natural Law | Princeton University, noted a century ago for employing stalwarts of the Faith like Benjamin … | 2002/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2002-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 123 Barbara Olson’s Testament | Perhaps the best-known victim of the terrorists’ atrocities on September 11, 2001, was Barbara … | 2002/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2002-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 122 Body & Soul | BODY & SOUL In Body & Soul: Human Nature & the Crisis in Ethics … | 2002/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2002-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 121 Skeptical Environmentalists | Were more of us more skeptical, less credulous, fewer of us would fear environmental … | 2002/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2002-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 120 The Clash of Civilizations | Allegedly one of the most widely-discussed books in the Bush White House is The Clash … | 2001/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2001-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 119 Darwin’s God | In Darwin’s God (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, c. 2001), Cornelius G. Hunter argues that Darwinism … | 2001/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2001-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 118 In Defense of Tradition | Having earlier read and relished the writing of Richard M. Weaver, most accessible in Ideas … | 2001/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2001-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 117 More Guns, Less Crime | Gun-control advocates generally assume the intuitive “certainty” that guns per se encourage crime–so reducing the … | 2001/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2001-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 116 Dietrich von Hildebrand | Dietrich von Hildebrand In The Soul of a Lion: Dietrich von Hildebrand (San Francisco: Ignatius … | 2001/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2001-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 115 Unapologetic Apologetics | Until 1943, apologetics was required of Princeton Theological Seminary students. In 1944, as a result … | 2001/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2001-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 114 The Moral Sense | James Q. Wilson, a UCLA professor, hopes to “help people recover the confidence with which … | 2001/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2001-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 113 Michael D. O’Brien | Thomas Howard, a respected Christian literary critic, gives high praise to Michael D. O’Brien’s first … | 2001/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2001-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 112 Kids Who Kill | In 1998, when Mike Huckabee was Governor of Arkansas, two boys (aged 11 and 13) … | 2001/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2001-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 111 Thomas Sowell on Justice | “Justice,” C.S. Lewis said, “is giving equal things to equals, and unequal things to unequals.” … | 2001/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2001-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 110 One Nation, After All? | Alan Wolfe is one of the nation’s most highly regarded sociologists. In One Nation, After … | 2001/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2001-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 109 The Atheist Syndrome | While finishing his Ph.D. in psychology at Stanford University, Paul Vitz settled into a comfortable, … | 2001/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2001-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 108 The War Against Boys | “It’s a bad time to be a boy in America” (p. 13) writes Christina Hoff … | 2000/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2000-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 107 How We Got Here | If you’re wondering “what’s happening now,” David Frum’s How We Got Here: The ’70s: The … | 2000/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2000-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 106 Sellout | David Schippers, under Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early ’60s, led the Justice … | 2000/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2000-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 105 The Death of Character | To understand our culture, reading the works of James Davison Hunter, Professor of Sociology and … | 2000/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2000-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 104 Communism’s Black Book | “Communism has been the great story of the twentieth century,” says Martin Malia, in his … | 2000/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2000-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 103 The Gospel of Jesus | For more than a century the “synoptic problem” has troubled the waters of New Testament … | 2000/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2000-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 102 Chosen But Free | Norman Geisler, President of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, has published some 60 … | 2000/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2000-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 101 Intelligent Design | During the past decade, a committed corps of brilliant scholars has launched a powerful … | 2000/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2000-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 100 Marriage, Divorce, Family | David Popenoe, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, has devoted his scholarly career to a … | 2000/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2000-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 099 Moral Absolutes | When he began teaching philosophy and government at the University of Texas, J. Budziszewski expounded … | 2000/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2000-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 098 Euthanasia and Bioethics | While I find N. Scott Peck’s books a mixed lot, especially insofar as they tend … | 2000/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2000-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 097 America’s Real War | “The whole of man’s history,” we read in one of the documents of Vatican II, … | 2000/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 2000-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 096 Ideas Have Consequences | It’s always a delight to discover substantive thinkers whose works, while not widely celebrated, endure … | 1999/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1999-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 095 Collegians, Hungry For Heaven | J. Budziszewski, a philosophy professor at the University of Texas, has written a handy … | 1999/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1999-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 094 “How Now Shall We Live” | The historian Will Durant once declared that “From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from … | 1999/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1999-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 093 Pastoral Perspectives | Pastoring, like parenting, necessarily entails both joys and pains. Surviving in ministry, Gary D. … | 1999/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1999-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 092 Envy, Property, Freedom | Envy, one of the “seven deadly sins,” sorrows at another’s good. When someone else enjoys … | 1999/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1999-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 091 Domesticating God? | In The Trivialization of God: The Dangerous Illusion of a Manageable Deity (Colorado Springs: … | 1999/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1999-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 090 The Case For Christ | A former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, Lee Strobel, has written a fascinating work, … | 1999/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1999-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 089 Socialism Revisited | A century ago, Feodor Dostoevsky, speaking through the character Aloyosha, said: [If] God and immortality … | 1999/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1999-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 088 “A Return to Modesty,” Marriage, and Motherhood | “A Return to Modesty,” Marriage, and Motherhood A recently published “American Freshman” survey, conducted by … | 1999/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1999-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 087 An Education For Our Time | “AN EDUCATION FOR OUR TIME” Major General Josiah Bunting III, a Rhodes scholar who has … | 1999/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1999-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 086 The Character of Nations | For good reason thinkers such as Aristotle have urged us to invest wisely and well … | 1999/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1999-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 085 Faith and Reason | FAITH AND REASON “When the turmoil of this century’s final decade has at last been … | 1999/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1999-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 084 The Dying of the Light | “THE DYING OF THE LIGHT” One of today’s more perceptive thinkers, William Willimon, Dean of … | 1998/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1998-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 083 Preaching, Prayer, Faithful Churches | Roy Clements, says Ravi Zacharias, “is one of the finest biblical expositors of our time.” … | 1998/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1998-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 082 On Losing – And Learning – The Virtues | ON LOSING–AND LEARNING–THE VIRTUES David Wells, a professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, established his niche … | 1998/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1998-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 081 Christians and the Law | CHRISITIANS AND THE LAW Most of us realize the importance of laws–especially when driving on … | 1998/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1998-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 080 Should God Get Tenure | Some fine essays, dealing with issues germane to higher education, appear in David W. Gill, … | 1998/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1998-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 079 Evangelicals and Catholics Together | EVANGELICALS AND CATHOLICS TOGETHER During the past 25 years a surprising development has brought together … | 1998/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1998-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 078 The Real Jesus | “THE REAL JESUS” For nearly two millennia one Person–Jesus, the Christ–has loomed above all others, … | 1998/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1998-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 077 Destructive Generation | Number Seventy-seven May 1998 “DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION” One of the finest books I’ve read in the … | 1998/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1998-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 076 Ravi Zacharias | RAVI ZACHARIAS Ravi Zacharias routinely defends the faith in leading universities (Harvard, Oxford, et al.), … | 1998/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1998-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 075 Necessary Natural Law | NECESSARY NATURAL LAW The Natural Law is one of the most durable of all ethical … | 1998/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1998-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 074 The Empty Church Explained: Destructive Liberalism Self-Destructing | the EMPTY CHURCH explained: DESTRUCTIVE LIBERALISM SELF-DESTRUCTING: For two centuries various forms of liberalism have … | 1998/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1998-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 073 Pitrim Sorokin Revisited | PITRIM SOROKIN REVISITED Harold O. J. Brown, a distinguished professor of theology at Trinity Evangelical … | 1998/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1998-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 072 The Divorce Culture | “THE DIVORCE CULTURE” The Atlantic Monthly‘s cover story in the April 1993 declared “Dan Quayle … | 1997/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1997-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 071 On Having A Soul | “On Having a Soul” From earliest times we’ve wondered at ourselves. There’s more to man … | 1997/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1997-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 070 New Age, New Absolutes | Peter Jones grew up in Liverpool, England, attending school with a friend named John. “For … | 1997/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1997-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 069 On Looking Into the Abyss | “ON LOOKING INTO THE ABYSS” One of America’s finest historians, Gertrude Himmelfarb, has published a … | 1997/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1997-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 068 Philosophers Who Believe | PHILOSOPHERS WHO BELIEVE Though university professors, especially professional “philosophers,” have a somewhat jaded reputation … | 1997/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1997-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 067 Walking With Saints | “WALKING WITH SAINTS” Years ago Calvin Miller published a poetic trilogy–The Singer, The Song, The … | 1997/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1997-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 066 Why America Needs Religion | Guenter Lewy, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has written … | 1997/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1997-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 065 Darwin’s Black Box | “As we reach the end of this book,” says Michael Behe in Darwin’s Black Box: … | 1997/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1997-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 064 After Virtue | During the 1990’s much as been written about “virtue.” William Bennett and others have vigorously … | 1997/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1997-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 063 Realism Redivivus | William P. Alston is one of the most highly regarded contemporary American philosophers. Now Professor … | 1997/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1997-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 062 The Gospel of Life | That we live in what John Paul II calls a “culture of death” becomes evident … | 1997/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1997-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 061 Generation Next | Glib and frequently negative references to “Generation X” are usually rooted in anecdotal and impressionistic … | 1997/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1997-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 060 Truth at Stake | TRUTH AT STAKE Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who moved from a prison cell to … | 1996/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1996-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 059 Men, Women, and Children | Two years ago Dr.Tom Goble urged me to read John Gray’s Men Are from Mars, … | 1996/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1996-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 058 Justification by Faith Alone? | R. C. Sproul shares Martin Luther’s conviction that justification by faith alone is “the article … | 1996/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1996-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 057 Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be | Cornelius Plantinga Jr. lifted the title of his recent book from a tow truck driver’s … | 1996/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1996-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 056 Gnostics Old and New | During the past few decades “advocacy scholarship” has gained increased standing and influence in academic … | 1995/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1995-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 055 Defending the Faith | It’s always a pleasure to recommend a colleague’s book, and a new professor in Point … | 1995/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1995-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 054 Contemporary Culture, Faith and the Arts | During the past five years Gene Edward Veith, Jr., Dean of the School of Arts … | 1995/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1995-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 053 Liberty Endangered? | One of my former students, Allen Brown, a lawyer, urged me to read The Theme … | 1995/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1995-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 052 Pneumatology: Protestant and Catholic | PNEUMATOLOGY: PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC Jurgen Moltmann, one of the most influential Protestant theologians in the … | 1995/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1995-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 051 Early Christian History | Scholarly assessments of early Christianity continue, unabated–illustrating, if nothing else, the perennial allure of Jesus … | 1995/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1995-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 050 For the Soul of the University | One of America’s finest scholars, George M. Marsden, offers us a first-rate intellectual history in … | 1995/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1995-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 049 Compassion, Justice and Redistribution | Most of us know the U.S. has spent some five trillion dollars, fighting the “war … | 1995/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1995-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 048 Prayer and Spiritual Formation | Having been blessed by the writings of Thomas Dubay (especially Fire Within), I was delighted … | 1995/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1995-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 047 Peterson on Pastoring | My friend and fellow-bibliophile Larry Powell gave me Under the Unpredictable Plant: And Exploration in … | 1995/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1995-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 046 Families Matter | Motherhood Deferred: A Woman’s Journey by Anne Taylor Fleming (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c. … | 1995/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1995-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 045 The Scandal of Evangelism | THE SCANDAL OF EVANGELICALISM In The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Grand Rapids: William B. … | 1995/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1995-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 044 Reclaiming America’s Morality | When journalists and politicians join preachers lamenting the loss of ethics in America, it’s time … | 1994/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1994-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 043 Dunning and Grider: Holiness Theologians | Two of the finest theologians in the Church of the Nazarene have recently published works … | 1994/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1994-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 042 Generation X? | “GENERATION X”? A recent article by Andres Tapia in Christianity Today (September 12, 1994), “Reaching … | 1994/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1994-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 041 Eastern Orthodoxy | Though the perspectives of Eastern Orthodox peoples have rarely received much attention in the West, … | 1994/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1994-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 040 Men in America | MEN IN AMERICA Few issues touch hearts as deeply as those affecting families. From the … | 1994/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1994-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 039 The Slient Holocaust | Routinely teaching Ethics, I revisit the main issues which we face, including abortion–labeled “the silent … | 1994/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1994-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 038 Whither Christ’s Church? | A recent (May 16, 1994) article by Robert Roberts in Christianity Today, entitled “Psychobabble,” blends … | 1994/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1994-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 037 Racial Perspectives: Black; White; Red | RACIAL PERSPECTIVES: BLACK; WHITE; RED William Pannell, Dean of the Chapel at Fuller Theological Seminary, … | 1994/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1994-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 036 Education at the Crossroads | EDUCATION AT THE CROSSROADS The year 1989 was a historic watershed: the Berlin Wall came … | 1994/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1994-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 035 Jacques and Raissa Maritain | I earlier noted, when reviewing Jacques Maritain’s Moral Philosophy in my May 1992 newsletter, how … | 1994/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1994-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 034 Democracy In America | I took the advice of two good friends, Allen Brown and John Wilson, and read … | 1994/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1994-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 033 The USA Today | When someone as renowned and knowledgeable as Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. fears an impending unravelling … | 1994/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1994-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 032 Higher Education | I recently read that Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon … | 1993/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1993-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 031 Evangelical Theology | David D. Wells, a professor of theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, has launched a missile, … | 1993/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1993-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 030 Oden’s Magnum Opus | Should Thomas C. Oden proves to be a harbinger of things to come, systematic theology … | 1993/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1993-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 029 Foundations For Our Faith | One of C.S. Lewis’s maxims I agree with (but too often fail to heed) is … | 1993/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1993-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 028 Modern Morality | During the past decade, a swelling chorus of journalistic lament and breastbeating has decried the … | 1993/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1993-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 027 Colson, Steele, Sykes | I’ve read most of Chuck Colson’s books, often recommend them to students, and I consider … | 1993/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1993-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 026 Thomas V. Morris | During the past decade, a young Notre Dame philosopher, Thomas V. Morris, has published some … | 1993/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1993-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 025 Creation Concerns | In 1962, while still in college, I received, as a member of the Book-of-the-Month Club, … | 1993/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1993-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 024 Gender Issues | Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University, has (in addition to scholarly publications) written … | 1993/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1993-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 023 Biblical Integrity | IVP has just published Is the New Testament Reliable: A Look at the Historical Evidence … | 1993/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1993-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 022 Philosophy, Technopoly | (ERRATUM: Two perceptive readers (Don Hughes and David Whitelaw), who read my “reedings” better than … | 1993/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1993-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 021 Mark A. Noll | During the past decade a young (at five years my junior, he’s obviously “young”) Wheaton … | 1993/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1993-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 020 Culture Wars? | Few of us, I think it’s safe to say, question the truism that contemporary culture … | 1992/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1992-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 019 Gore, Las Casas, Jaki | GORE, LAS CASAS, JAKI While in college, Senator Al Gore awakened to the reality of … | 1992/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1992-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 018 Conservative Critiques | CONSERVATIVE CRITIQUES To balance the fashionably leftist tilt of academia, one needs to read things … | 1992/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1992-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 017 The Art of Preaching Today | THE ART OF PREACHING TODAY We who preach understand how difficult it is to preach … | 1992/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1992-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 016 T. S. Eliot | T. S. ELIOT Almost every year I re-read at least some of the works of … | 1992/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1992-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 015 Some Spiritual Sustenance | Enduring institutions draw inspiration from their founding fathers. A new publication, Thank God and Take … | 1992/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1992-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 014 Modernity’s Inquisitors | MODERNITY’S INQUISITORS The classic question “what ought I do” entails not only an ethical imperative … | 1992/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1992-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 013 Should Old Aquinas Be Forgot? | SHOULD OLD AQUINAS BE FORGOT? While in graduate school I encountered, providentially I think, while … | 1992/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1992-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 012 Contemporary Theologians | CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGIANS Dietrich Bonhoeffer occupies a distinctive niche in modern theology–a focus for both hagiography … | 1992/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1992-04-01 06:00:00 |
| 011 The State of the World | THE STATE OF THE WORLD Since reading Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring thirty years ago I’ve … | 1992/03/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1992-03-01 06:00:00 |
| 010 The World We Live In | THE WORLD WE LIVE IN I’ve found a number of useful illustrations in The Day … | 1992/02/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1992-02-01 06:00:00 |
| 009 Newbigin – Peretti | NEWBIGIN . . . PERETTI A year ago I was privileged to take part in … | 1992/01/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1992-01-01 06:00:00 |
| 008 God in Contemporary Thought | Several recent studies remind us of the perennial importance of “our idea of God,” the … | 1991/12/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1991-12-01 06:00:00 |
| 007 Worthy History | One of the best historical works I’ve read in some time is The Democratization of … | 1991/11/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1991-11-01 06:00:00 |
| 006 Science and Religion | In the on-going dialogue between religion and science, some valuable perspectives distinguish recent studies. Christopher … | 1991/10/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1991-10-01 05:00:00 |
| 005 Sin-as-Addiction and Grace-as-Remedy | I’m told Dr. H. Orton Wiley, the dean of Nazarene theologians, often said that once … | 1991/09/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1991-09-01 05:00:00 |
| 004 Higher Education in America | Since Allen Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind in the mid-1980’s, several probing … | 1991/08/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1991-08-01 05:00:00 |
| 003 Against Heresies | Probing the past for perspectives on the present, a Presbyterian pastor in Saint John, New … | 1991/07/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1991-07-01 05:00:00 |
| 002 A Hunger for Tradition | At a recent meeting Wheaton’s Professor Robert E. Webber challenged us to rediscover and reemphasize … | 1991/06/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1991-06-01 05:00:00 |
| 001 America’s Youth Culture | We who work with young people today sometimes sense the acute need for cross-cultural communication! … | 1991/05/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1991-05-01 05:00:00 |
| 000 Chronological List of Books | #1 May 1991 AMERICA’S YOUTH CULTURE … | 1990/04/01 | Gerard Reed | Notes on Books | 1990-04-01 10:01:00 |