Category Archives: book review

Review of Tom Holland Dominion

Posted on November 20, 2019 by PaulVK

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How Good is the Golden Rule? A Line to Toe or a Rule to Work

Posted on November 11, 2019 by PaulVK

“Those who can do and those who can’t teach” This adage is something that annoys teachers but those who hurl it at them often point to a genuine truth. As we evolve into the “Information Age” the kings of the … Continue reading →

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The Cheap Grace of the Ascending Civil Religion

Posted on March 16, 2017 by PaulVK

https://twitter.com/PWRBTTMBAND/status/800758685219819520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw In 2008 Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were against Same-sex marriage and for “civil unions”.  While we don’t know what they believed personally.  Politicians prevail by reading the room. From 2000-2012 the cry was “don’t you judge me!”. From 2012 to … Continue reading →

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Bill Gates on the Road to Character

Posted on October 7, 2016 by PaulVK

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Making Sense of God

Posted on September 23, 2016 by PaulVK

TGC Prequil JesusCreed Jesus Creed RJS and again

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Between the World and Me

Posted on December 5, 2015 by PaulVK

Reviews of Ta-Nehisi Coates book Michelle Alexander NYT Dreher

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Same Sex Marriage as Theological Crisis for the CRC

Posted on December 3, 2015 by PaulVK

The Standard Narrative of Progressive Liberationism Many Americans, Christian or not assume a narrative that lines up the following into a new American civil rights manifest destiny. In the American Civil War and Abolitionist movement American abolished slavery In the … Continue reading →

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The Road to Character, Chapter 10, The Big Me, and Summary

Posted on May 28, 2015 by PaulVK

Handing This In Late I finished reading this book right before a week of vacation, wrote half of what I wanted to write on chapter 10, but then didn’t pick up this task again until now. I’ve listened to chapter … Continue reading →

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Samuel Johnson and Montaigne in The Road to Character by David Brooks

Posted on May 8, 2015 by PaulVK

Samuel Johnson and Michel de Montaigne David Brook’s The Road to Character is a biographical box of chocolates and this chapter, like many of the others has a treat composed of two kinds of sweets. He begins the chapter with Samuel Johnson with … Continue reading →

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David Brooks’ treatment of Augustine in The Road to Character

Posted on May 7, 2015 by PaulVK

Augustine Of all the figures in Brooks’ biographical box of chocolates Augustine I knew the best. Brooks’ treatment of Augustine as a ladder climbing youth fighting inner turmoil seems postured almost like a Tim Keller sermon for modern New Yorkers. … Continue reading →

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