2020: Book #33 “Mary Todd Lincoln was nobody’s idea of a good time.” I laughed out at that statement. Literally, I laughed out loud. That’s a sentence from S.C. Gwynne’s new book, “Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War.” This is...
2020: Book #32 “People want work that matters and relationships that fulfill.” “Dreams are the wishes our hearts make, but our hearts are not reliable guides. Our hearts have taken good things from god and conjured up fever dreams of them as things in which we can...
2020: Book #31 Ireland was starving. History journals tell us that as people walked the roads, they’d see bodies piled in corners of fields or at an intersection. The potato harvest had failed. People were starving. A local priest, Father Mathew, began to lead the...
2020: Book #30 The book was factual. There was no untruth in the entire thing. Scripture was quoted accurately. Yet, it lacked something. Allow me to say it this way…the book never captivated me. What’s the book? Nancy Guthrie’s “Saints and Scoundrels in the Story of...
2020: Book #29 “Out, damned spot! Out!” Those are famous words from Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s famed tragedy, “Macbeth.” After murdering his rivals, the play focuses on how Macbeth and his wife deal with their immense guilt and shame. The play is nothing short of...
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