Jennifer Fulwiler’s New Book
Over at Forbes, my review of Something Other than God.
Category: books
Selling ‘Doubt’
My review of Stephen C. Meyer’s ‘Darwin’s Doubt’ is up at National Review. It will appear in the Sept. 2nd print edition. Our contemporary debates about evolution are basically an extension of the argument Christians have been having with one another since the Middle Ages, about how much autonomy God granted to the natural world.… Continue reading Selling ‘Doubt’
Taking a Cue from Siris
As I have to devote so much time to the Forbes blog, I hate letting this one grow moss. So I’m going to take a page from Brandon Watson’s playbook and post passages from noteworthy books, poems and quotes (and videos).
Book Reviews
The Wall Street Journal has hired a former Atlantic editor to broaden it’s book review coverage. I wouldn’t mind getting in on this.
Book Notes
Hesiod and the ‘mythographers’ had developed the method to understand the stories of the gods, but we know of no one before Herodotos who had tried to gather memories and documents together on such a scale to tell a connected story about the past. It was a very brave undertaking: the Persian Wars had finished… Continue reading Book Notes