Saturday, November 5, 2022

Saturday Good Reads - Nov. 5, 2022


In 1885, Ulysses S. Grant knew he was dying. He was determined to leave his wife provided for. In the last few weeks of his life, as he was finishing his personal memoirs, he wrote a short note to his doctors that explained what he was doing. Chris Mackowski at Emerging Civil War has the story. 

It was to be a Halloween party to end all Halloween parties, but it turned into something very different. Garrett Kell at The Gospel Coalition describes the Halloween night that changed his life. 

I enjoy reading stories in secular publications about archaeological discoveries in the Middle East. Archaeologists (and the story writers) always seem surprised to discover that a story, or stories, from the Bible turns out to be true – or at least have a basis in fact. A new one is the discovery that some of those military events in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah really did happen. Who knew? 

Good Reads 

American Stuff 

The Small God of Thomas Jefferson:Why He Rejected Calvinism – Thomas Kidd at Desiring God. 

How Samuel Adams Fought for Independence - Anonymously – Stacy Schiff at Literary Hub. 

Faith

 Four Lessons from MedievalIllustrated Bibles – David Hogg at Text and Canon Institute. 

What Does Reformed Mean? – Clint Archer at The Cripplegate. 

The Worshipper – Jeremy Walker at Banner of Truth. 

Life and Culture 

From the Abstract to the Everyday:How Stories Dominate Every Facet of Our Lives – Peter Brooks at Literary Hub. 

Where the Boys Aren’t: Culture wars over gender obscure the deepening educational struggles of young males – Kay Hymowitz at CityJournal. 

On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away – John Tierney at CityJournal. 

Democracy’s Despotic Drift – David Eisenberg at Front Porch Republic. 

Ukraine 

36th Enid and R. Crosby Kemper Lecture: “A New Sinews of Peace” – Garry Kasparov at America’s National Churchill Museum. 

Poetry 

Service of All the Dead – D.H. Lawrence at The Imaginative Conservative. 

The Poetry of Autumn – James Matthew Wilson at First Things Magazine. 

News Media 

Free Bird: On Elon Musk and Twitter – Walter Kirn at Common Sense. 

Truth Cops: Leaked Documents Outline DHS's Plans to Police Disinformation – Ken Klippenstein & Lee Fang at The Intercept. 

Organ Symphony No. 5 in F Minor, Op. 42 No. 1: V. Toccata. Allegro (Arr. E. Ellsworth) – Gabriel V Brass Ensemble

 

Painting: The Novel Reader, oil on canvas by Heinrich von Rustige (1810-1900).

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