Brittany Proffitt
Podcast: Summer Book Recommendations
Check out the So We Speak podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In this episode, Cole and Terry discuss their top summer reads with...
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Brittany Proffitt
- Jun 10
- 3 min
The Puritans And Spiritual Dryness: Hope in God and His Word
Have you ever been through a season of spiritual dryness? No resolve or motivation to read Scripture? No yearning to be with God’s...
Tyler Tidwell
- Feb 1
- 13 min
How Do We Know?
Epistemology: A Beginner’s Guide by Robert Martin Review by Tyler Tidwell What is knowledge? Each of us confronts an astounding amount of...
Cole Feix
- Jan 7
- 6 min
Best Books of 2021: History and Churchill
Just south of the plaza in Kansas City, there’s a statue of Winston Churchill. He’s sitting on a park bench with his beloved Clementine,...
Cole Feix
- Jan 4
- 8 min
Best Books of 2021: Non-Fiction
Why does it feel so good to have books around? For most of the last three years, I’ve had my library in boxes in a storage unit,...
Cole Feix
- Jan 1
- 7 min
Best Books of 2021: Christian Books and Commentaries
It’s been quite a year for reading. Like 2020, there are times that 2021 has felt like a speedy 6 weeks and a lengthy 3 years. It’s my...
Tyler Tidwell
- Dec 9, 2021
- 14 min
To Whom Does the Future Belong?
Review: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? by Eric Kaufmann. What to Expect When No One’s Expecting, by Jonathan Last. To whom does...
Cole Feix
- Sep 3, 2021
- 6 min
The Value of Piles: The Best Books of August
You’ll probably notice, as I did scheduling this post, that these monthly reviews have almost become themed. Last month, because I’d been...
Cole Feix
- Jul 10, 2021
- 5 min
WWIII, Church Leadership, and the Care of Souls: The Best Books of June
“One of my favorite vacation indulgences is to read whatever I feel like. Unhooking my reading from any sort of obligation feels like...
Cole Feix
- Jun 11, 2021
- 6 min
On Re-Fascination: May Books
I wouldn’t consider myself an overly severe book critic; with books, I’m usually easy to please. But this month I came across several...
Cole Feix
- Apr 9, 2021
- 7 min
Chaos Under Heaven, Embodied, No Mere Mortals, and Other Recent Reads
March brought a few great books across my path. Here are some of the highlights: Chaos Under Heaven - Josh Rogin After listening to Rogin...
Cole Feix
- Feb 17, 2021
- 4 min
Wild Tides and Prudent Politics - What I've Been Reading
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke This is one of those trips into fiction that leaves me wondering why I don’t read it more often. Piranesi is a...
Tyler Tidwell
- Jan 29, 2021
- 8 min
Review: After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
Is Western civilization losing its morality? Our philosophers appear incapable of achieving anything resembling a consensus on morals,...
Cole Feix
- Dec 31, 2020
- 7 min
Cole Feix: My Favorite Articles of the Year
There have been so many wonderful articles this year, it's hard to narrow the list down. I've found myself searching more than ever...
Brittany Proffitt
- Dec 17, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast: The Best Books of 2020
Check out the So We Speak podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Recommended The Splendid and the Vile - Larson (link here) Live Not By...
Tyler Tidwell
- Dec 2, 2020
- 4 min
Review: The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
What does it mean to be educated? In a controversial manifesto, lifelong college professor Allan Bloom offers a critique of trends in...
Dr. Benjamin J. Williams
- Nov 27, 2020
- 9 min
Review: The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
I've come to appreciate the voice and work of Jemar Tisby. While he and I would not agree on every point of our culture's recent social...
Tyler Tidwell
- Nov 18, 2020
- 6 min
Review: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
In 1998, when the Modern Library solicited readers to select the 100 best English language novels published since 1900, Atlas Shrugged...
Cole Feix
- Nov 3, 2020
- 4 min
A Few Non-Election Best Reads
“Of, By, and For the Freedmen” - James Hankins and Allen Guelzo, The New Criterion Statue toppling, predictably, knows no bounds. These...
Tyler Tidwell
- Oct 21, 2020
- 9 min
Review: The Great Delusion by John Mearsheimer
Liberalism in international relations (IR) is the theory that democracy, inalienable natural rights, and diplomatic, economic, and...