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.

When Is a Book a Book?

I've been seeing some strange things in the worlds of writing and publishing recently. I've been seeing more and more people talk about the books they have written -- yet many of these people haven't published a damn thing! Excuse me, but they are aspiring writers and authors, NOT authors! I have had the good …

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The New Internet Writing “Experts”

Well, I guess this will be my first "rant" of my new blog. Maybe not a rant, but instead just a bitching session.... I've just finally got to speak up about a topic I first noticed popping up online here several years ago, and I've seen this topic and this issue and these people I'm …

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