I've been reading a book by Niels Arboel, a Danish writer and teacher. His book, The Wonder of Creation: The Most Famous Christian Biologists in History, which I have mentioned previously has twenty biographies in it and there are tremendous differences in the way Arboel writes about the various biologists he is discussing. What I [...]
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Reviewing Pilgrim Tales, an anthology of Catholic fiction
Pilgrim Tales is an anthology of Catholic fiction put together by the Catholic Writers Guild and published in December, 2025. The theme of pilgrimage ties the stories together. https://a.co/d/09qgScNy The Voyage of Life: Manhood. Thomas Cole, American, 1842 These fifteen stories are so different from each other that sitting down and reading the whole book [...]
What exactly is science???
There’s an idea floating around that science is all about experiments, in fact, that without experiments, there is no science. Certainly, experimentation is right up there, at the highest level of science, but there are whole branches of science where experimentation is not possible. Geology is one of them. No one is doing experimental continental [...]
Book report — January 2026
In the last month I’ve read some very odd books, or an eclectic selection of perfectly normal books, take your pick. I started with “Laura Spinney’s utterly engrossing Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global [which] tells the story in magnificent detail” of how the Indo-European group of languages got its start. The quote is from the [...]
More about vacation books …
My post is quite late today! On my vacation I read a book about Texas history called Adelsverein: The Gathering by Celia Hayes. It’s part one of a trilogy she wrote describing a German immigrant scheme from the 1840’s. The scheme, named the Adelsverein or Mainzer Verein, was arranged by various German nobility to relieve [...]
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