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Breaking Wind from Your Ass – Biblical Scholar Slips a Fart Joke into the Bible
The (alleged) fart of Achsah: A Biblical Scholar There’s a story in Joshua 15.15-19 (repeated almost verbatim in Judges 1.11-15), in which Caleb offers his daughter Achsah to any warrior who can… more →
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Book Review - EUROPE: The Struggle for Supremacy from 1453 to the Present
wrote 16 hours ago: Review written by Frank T. Csongos In his sweeping, intelligent and enormously ambitious book, Brit … more →
Nails&Book
wrote 4 days ago: How is your Monday guys?! Was it good? Mine is actually better than I expected since it was our firs … more →
Writing on a theme
wrote 1 week ago: Part 5 in the series: How I found the snow path to Dingle Reviewers said a big reason Dan Brown … more →
Flushed with pride.
wrote 2 weeks ago: The story of T. Crapper & Co., makers of the finest sanitary appliances…Like me you’ … more →
The Valley of Unknowing by Philip Sington
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Philip Sington’s new novel, The Valley of Unknowing, is about a washed out novelist in East Ge … more →
Clinging to A Sane Vision Can Pay Off
wrote 2 weeks ago: Although South Africa does not garner much attention on the worldwide radar these days, there is one … more →
What's your book about?
wrote 2 weeks ago: Part 4 in the series: How I found the snow path to Dingle I never would have guessed that one of the … more →
Choosing a place in time
wrote 3 weeks ago: Part 3 in the series: How I found the snow path to Dingle As noted in my last post, my research was … more →
Book review: ‘Bolivar: American Liberator’ by Marie Arana
wrote 1 month ago: “Bolivar: American Liberator” by Marie Arana. (Simon & Schuster) Review by Joseph J. Ellis In th … more →
How A Genius Fulfilled His Potential
wrote 1 month ago: I think this is the first I have seen someone write a biography of a literary luminary. I was concer … more →
How I found the snow path to Dingle
wrote 1 month ago: I feel it is a great honor when readers share with me that they read my book, Sharavogue, and then d … more →
Ghost Town by Patrick McGrath
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wrote 1 month ago: Rinder himself came of immigrant stock. He had clawed his way into society, had become a partner in … more →
The Coronation by Boris Akunin
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wrote 1 month ago: The seventh title in Boris Akunin’s Erast Fandorin mysteries is The Coronation, a high society … more →
Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership lessons from America's most underrated President by Charles C. Johnson
wrote 2 months ago: Review by David Wilezol It is disappointing that Calvin Coolidge is consistently releg … more →
Status Report Day 60
wrote 2 months ago: Thankfully I am through both Books of Chronicles. What did I get out of it? Pretty much nothing. It … more →
Tonight We’re Gonna Party Like its BC 99
wrote 2 months ago: We tried a Unity Church on Sunday. It was an experience. It was a very small church with a small con … more →
War Ship!
wrote 2 months ago: Worship. I have never really thought about it, but I don’t know what that means. I would have define … more →
Don’t Read the Last Page First
wrote 2 months ago: The crux of Christianity is the life and resurrection of Jesus. Knowing this, the Bible feels like i … more →
It’s Not Yo Momma’s Sin
wrote 2 months ago: In the Second Book of Chronicles they quote a law from the Books of Moses. “Parents shall not be put … more →
