Qur’an 39: Throngs
In this chapter the Qur’anic author preaches Faith Alone and Prophethood Alone. By Faith Alone, or “exclusive faith,” he means active reliance on God alone – not wealth, not other believers, not...
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Impressions of “Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC...
Hardcore Software is a professional memoir of former Microsoft executive Steve Sinofsky, who began working at Microsoft as a software engineer and eventually led the Office and Windows groups. It is...
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Impressions of “The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the...
A generation ago Thomas P.M Barnett wrote The Pentagon’s New Map, a “brief” or powerpoint deck, magazine article, and book that helped shape my career. In PNM, Barnett emphasized the role of...
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Impressions of “Fallen” by Patrick Abbott
I like to think of books as reflecting three other books I know. For that reason, Fallen = Three-body Problem + The Man Who Stayed Behind + Facade. Like Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Problem, Fallen concerns...
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Every Book I Read in 2022
This is my sixth New Years in a row where I have listed the books I read in the past year. Briefly, the years I have previously written this, along with the “Best” and “Runner-up” books from each year,...
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Impressions of “You are Peter: An Orthodox Theologian’s Reflection on the...
You are Peter is an Orthodox reflection on the proper status of the Bishop of Rome. The author, Olivier Clement, argues based on linguistics, tradition, and the Church Fathers for Roman primacy among...
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Impressions of “Red Storm Rising,” by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond
Red Storm Rising is a fantastic story of a war that never was: a conventional conflict between the Soviet Union and NATO in the broader European theater in the 1980s. Red Storm holds a distinction of...
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Impressions of “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship,...
First, it must be said it’s not a coincidence that it’s almost impossible to find a picture of all four of Twitter’s co-founders in it. They seem not to like each other, which makes this book a fun...
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Reading aloud “The Gospel according to Luke,” two chapters at a time
This is my third time reading Luke on this blog. The first was on the heels of reading the Torah and the Former Prophets. Then, I read it aloud to a small audience. My takeaways from those previous...
View ArticleImpressions of Books of The Writings: Lamentiontations, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah
The Hebrew Bible is organized differently than the Christian Old Testament. It begins the same – Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, and Judges – but after that, the order...
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