My Favorite Books

Stained Glass
Witness
Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography
The Iliad
James
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Animal Farm
Doctrine of Endless Punishment
Marco Polo, If You Can
Who's on First
From Silence to Song: The Davidic Liturgical Revolution
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1984
The Hunt for Red October
A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss


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National Geographic and the 1980s

When I was born, my grandparents gave me the wonderful gift of a lifetime subscription to National Geographic magazine. In addition to supplying a curious young boy with many years of amazement over the wonders of creation, at 50 years and counting it must have been a great value—especially when one factors in the rampant [...]

Quote of the Day

So long as men accepted the basic affirmations of religion — that there is a God of all people with whom each individual has a personal relationship — our liberties were basically secure. Whenever there was a breach in them, we possessed a principle by which we could discover and repair the breach. But when [...]

Government is Good, but has its Limits

We tend to have lots of discussions about public policy at my office—after all, that is what we do. As part of that dialogue, an intern recently asked:
Is government regulation never a good thing? Even if regulations are designed to reduce pollution or cut down on secondhand smoke in restaurants (nominally good goals, although the [...]