I have a book like it from William Lane Craig who is imho one of the greatest apologetics authors alive today
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I have a book like it from William Lane Craig who is imho one of the greatest apologetics authors alive today
I'm more a presuppositionalist then an evidentialist but I am thankful for Craig's work.
Reading: Bavinck's Dogmatics, 4th volume.
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A Defiant Life: Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America, by Howard Ball, 1998. Highly recommended for any lawyer or law student interested in learning about an attorney who won 36 Supreme Court cases almost single-handedly (before he became Solicitor General of the United States), and risked his life to litigate criminal and civil trials all over the country, at a time when the federal government simply was not litigating civil rights cases. Also highly recommended for its very readable account of U.S. history from the Civil War through Marshall's 1954 victory in Brown v. Board of Education and beyond. For those unfamiliar with Marshall, he finished his career as only the second Marylander to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
Thanks guys, I just ordered both books from my library, based on your comments. I appreciate it when posters here put a little mini review into their replies, it gives others some ideas sometimes.
I just finished H.G.Wells' The Time Machine, which I hadn't ever opened before. A very quick read, even with large print it was more a short story. The Sci-Fi aspect is toned down as befiting when it was penned. Thoughful view of our future eh?
I would just add that Undaunted Courage might be the most interesting, entertaining, and exciting book on history I've ever read, and 1369's recommendation on Unbroken is dead on.
Courtesy of last month's University of Chicago Press free ebook-of-the-month:
"Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela"
"Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela"
"The Masada Protocol" by Lee Broad is an excellent read. I had a hard time putting it down. A work of fiction, but today's current events make it seem very real.
America's Great Depression by Rothbard
Just started "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin" by Erik Larson last night.
Zinn's "A people's history of the united states" is up for re-read next. Phenomenal book if you're a history buff
the bible
Thanks for the tip about the U of C press. That'll be a good resource.
"Corelli's Mandolin" by Louis de Bernières. Highly recommend it.
Now, I'm reading an 'over-size' (coffee table size), book entitled, "Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra " by Peter Kurth, intro by Edvard Radzinsky and photos by Peter Christopher. 
"Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra"
"This spectacular illustrated history tells the story of the last Romanovs - one of the great tragic love stories of all time - with unparalleled vividness & intimacy. The text, which follows Nicholas & Alexandria from their childhood's to the Siberian cellar where their lives ended, is complemented by rare images from the imperial family's private collections (locked away for decades in Soviet archives, & published here for the first time), as well as by contemporary full-color photographs of the places & palaces the Romanovs knew".
"Reading is to mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison
"Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra"
"This spectacular illustrated history tells the story of the last Romanovs - one of the great tragic love stories of all time - with unparalleled vividness & intimacy. The text, which follows Nicholas & Alexandria from their childhood's to the Siberian cellar where their lives ended, is complemented by rare images from the imperial family's private collections (locked away for decades in Soviet archives, & published here for the first time), as well as by contemporary full-color photographs of the places & palaces the Romanovs knew".
Currently reading "Locked On" by Tom Clancy. Before it, I read the unabridged version of "The Count of Monte Cristo"
Now, I'm reading an 'over-size' (coffee table size), book entitled, "Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra " by Peter Kurth, intro by Edvard Radzinsky and photos by Peter Christopher.
"Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra"
"This spectacular illustrated history tells the story of the last Romanovs - one of the great tragic love stories of all time - with unparalleled vividness & intimacy. The text, which follows Nicholas & Alexandria from their childhood's to the Siberian cellar where their lives ended, is complemented by rare images from the imperial family's private collections (locked away for decades in Soviet archives, & published here for the first time), as well as by contemporary full-color photographs of the places & palaces the Romanovs knew".
"Reading is to mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison
Good read, enjoy.Good book. The tent peg through the head was kind of a surprise. (Hope I didn't spoil that part in Judges for you. lol)
I have three books going at the moment.
Re-reading The Catcher In The Rye because it's finally time to check it out as an adult.
Re-reading Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing.../The Pill Vs.../Watermelon Sugar compendium.
E-book reading Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account (this I just DLd tonight...about to start it).
Re-reading The Catcher In The Rye because it's finally time to check it out as an adult.
Re-reading Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing.../The Pill Vs.../Watermelon Sugar compendium.
E-book reading Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account (this I just DLd tonight...about to start it).
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