Imprisoned by the Internet
Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age By Samuel D. James. Crossway, 2023. Paperback, 208 pages, $16.99. Reviewed by John Ehrett. Historian Oswald Spengler famously argued that man, at least since the Dark Ages, has been animated by a...
An Unsettling Sense of Justice
A Glooming Peace This Morning By Allen Mendenhall. Livingston Press, 2023. Paperback, 130 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Joshua S. Fullman. Justice is a term frequently and haphazardly tossed around in contemporary parlance. Rather than rooted in the rich heritage of...
JP O’Malley Interviews Author Thomas Harding
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing By Thomas Harding. Pegasus Books, 2023. Hardcover, 336 pages, $29.95. Thomas Harding published The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing last year. The University Bookman...
Saint Una and the Women Who Made Saint Augustine
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions By Kate Cooper. Basic Books, 2023. Hardcover, 304 pages, $30. Reviewed by Paul Krause. Saint Augustine was a momma’s boy. He was also smitten by the beauty and charm of women, from the concubine with...
Summer is here and the days are long. Slowing schedules allow time for many of us to sink into the queue of books that have been patiently waiting for us over the busyness of our end of spring schedules.
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Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.