I just finished two books on the American Civil War, Team of Rivals and Manhunt, a book on Lincoln’s assassination and the manhunt that ensued for John Wilkes Booth. I also completed Eric Metaxes’ book, Amazing Grace on the life of William Wilberforce. There is so much to glean from these books that I don’t [...]
David Park has an interesting blog article on Chinese women who have their feet bound for the sake of beauty. David notes: This practice of binding the feet of women was around for almost 1,000 years in China. And to my utter fright, the reasons for such a practice were aesthetic?! Years of suffering were [...]
First, the Aberration: On Tim Challies blog on which he commented on John Eldredge’s book, The Way of the Wild Heart, Tim wrote a blog article entitled, “I Don’t Need a Boyfriend.” It was Tim’s way of arguing against the disturbing and wrenching trend of relating to Jesus as lover in a metaphysical/physical way, an [...]
