Book Review — The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carr My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a book of great interest for me as John of Gaunt is purportedly my 17th great grandfather with a descent going through a number of ancestors I'm intimately familiar with as …

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Book Review: Throbbing Gristle’s Twenty Jazz Funk Greats

Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats by Drew DanielMy rating: 5 of 5 stars A serious work about a serious work. Er, the book was impressively done on this still-controversial TG experiment that, like the band that influenced so many that came after. Many attribute the founding of the industrial rock movement to Throbbing Gristle …

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Graduate gets Pulitzer nomination

I recently came across an article that's over 25 years old when the newspaper from the University of Tennessee, the Daily Beacon, published this story on me titled "Graduate gets Pulitzer nomination."

Some Personal (Critical) Thoughts on Francis Schaeffer’s Shaping of Evangelical America

If Francis Schaeffer was "the single greatest intellectual influence on young evangelicals of the 1960s and '70s," I'd wager those not of the evangelical bent ever have anything to worry about -- not that they ever did.