Saturday Good Reads – Nov. 8, 2025

At the end of the French and Indian War, known as the Seven Years War in Europe, Britain had triumphed. But it had two problems – the war had been hideously expensive, and the politicians (and royalty) running Britain at the time were not known for even-handedness. And those two factors, says George Goodwin at History Today, led to the American Revolution. 

If you’re intimidated by attempting to read The Iliad by Homer, Katie Hartsock at New Verse Review has a suggestion: Try Glimpses of The Iliad first.

 

The Old Testament of the Bible contains a lot of strange things, One of the strangest is the reference to the Nephilim, cited in Genesis 6:1-4. Brian Aucker at By Faith takes a stab at explaining what these creatures might have been.

 

More Good Reads

 

America 250

 

“Voice of Common Sense” George Washington and Guy Fawkes Day – Rob Orrison at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.

 

West Point’s Critical Role in the American Revolution – Christopher Klein at History.

 

Early Preservation at Fort Ticonderoga – Evan Portman at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.

 

Brickett’s Brigade: Less Infantry and More Cavalry at  Saratoga – Sherman Lohnes at Journal of the American Revolution.

 

Israel

 

30 Years – Michael Oren at Clarity on Yitzhak Rabin. 

 

Faith

 

Stay Put and Make Disciples – David Mathis at Desiring God.

 

4 Prerequisites for Ministry No One Talks About – Justin Jackson at The Gospel Coalition.

 

Poetry

 

“Crossing the Bar,” poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

“No!,” poem by Thomas Hood – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

“Reunion,” poem by Sally Thomas and “Growing Old,” poem by Matthew Arnold – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Writing and Literature

 

All There Is to Know, More or Less – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review on Simon Garfield’s All the Knowledge in the World.

 

Aquinas and the Limits of Forgiveness: A Case Study in Anna Karenina – Anna Moreland at Church Life Journal. 

 

Horror and the Sacred – Bruce Frohnen at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

American Stuff

 

Finding Clara Barton at her Washington, D.C. Home – Margaret Feierstein t Emerging Civil War.

 

Steady Hand – Lightbeholder

 Painting: Woman Reading a Letter, oil on canvas by James Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917).