Stump Speeches

This week I shed my elitist philosopher persona and drank deeply from the well of popular culture.  I bribed my kids to do some work for ...

On this day in 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkein was born in South Africa.  That means that ten years ago today would have been his eleventy-...

It's an end-of-year tradition for me to comb back through my reading journal and see how many books I've read during the year.  I...

Given the cablessness of our household vis-a-vis television (briefly described here ), I've been getting more reading done lately. ...

Continuing one of my least popular series of blog posts, here are some new additions to my library that arrived in the mail this week.  Gue...

The other day son #3 talked me into swinging by Steak and Shake for an afternoon milkshake.  When we got there, we saw that from 2-4pm it i...

Besides editing the Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity, I also wrote a chapter for it called "Natural Theology after Mode...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted ( here ) about Alan Jacobs's book, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction .  I followed it...

In what may turn out to be an annual tradition (see here for last year's edition), I unveil some of the realities of the financial si...

Since I started up the blogging discipline again, I've forgotten that one of my usual features used to be the "New Book Alert"...

A few years ago I was at a conference on character education at Baylor.  Two of the main speakers were Stanley Hauerwas and David Solomon, a...

When we were in northern Michigan for the Ron and Nancy Stump 50 year party , I sauntered into the Horizon Books one morning in lovely down...

Continuing the natural theology research, I've been skipping around in quite a few academic books I got from the library.  One of these ...

It's always fun to get new books in the mail.  It wasn't that long ago that such a thing was a very rare occurrence.  When we lived ...

I've been working on a paper I'm calling "Natural Theology after Modernism" this week that will go into the Blackwell Comp...

At the beginning of 2008, one of my objectives for the year (which doesn't sound as risky as "resolutions") was to identify so...

I finished rereading Shusaku Endo's Silence last night (the first time I read it was in 2005). This strikes me as a very important nove...

So I saw that Howie Mandel (sp?) commercial the other day for buy.com claiming to sell books for cheaper than Amazon and Barnes & Noble...

Like many of you out there, I enjoy the company of books. Last weekend Chad and I made a trip to Chicago hook up with the good folks at The ...