Augustine’s work Confessions is one of his major works, and includes not only timeless wisdom comparing this world to the kingdom that is coming, it introduces such imporant concepts as original sin, the timelessness of God, and our disordered loves.
1. Thagaste: The Childhood of Augustine One of the most important influences on any human being is the character and quality of their parents and childhood experience. As the child of a fairly well-to-do Italian family in a northern-African outpost of the Roman Empire, Augustine...
Richard Morgan, active member of RichardDawkins.net and self-professed “Dawkensian atheist” converted to Christianity in 2008 after a long search for social acceptance and truth. Will he stop there? He felt like Richard Dawkins ‘saved’ him from his many tries at finding meaning in faith. His...
Greg Stier over at the Christian Post has a nice article entitled Michael Jackson's Real Legacy. Here's the shortened list, modified by me: He taught us all how to dance He taught us all that money and creative success don't make you happy He taught...
Andrew Norman Wilson (b1950), is an English teacher and award winning writer. His biography of Tolstoy won the Whitbread Award(now the Costa Book Awards) for best biography in 1988. Wilson entered Oxford on the path of ordination in the Anglican Church, but quit after the...
From Albert Mohler’s Blog – I have never heard of this guy, but I will have to look into him. He has published prolifically, including such titles as Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution, The Idea of the University : A Reexamination, The Reformation of...
Next to the NKJV/NRSV translations, the Living Bible is one of my favorite paraphrase translations (it leaves botch jobs like The Message in the dust – in the translator’s defense, however, you can read an interview at CT). The Living Bible is easy to read...
