The recent movement of Hitler-love is full of moral stunts and scoops, intellectual bargaining, and self-promotion. It is a world as spiritually dead as the world of the PWC, also rejecting metaphysics, only in a coarser form. As René Girard taught us, rivalry really does eliminate differences....

Algorithms have ancient roots. The word itself comes from the 9th-century Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi, whose Latin-transliterated name became “algorithm.” But algorithmic thinking predates him. The ancient Greeks used the Euclidean algorithm for finding greatest common divisors around 300 BC. For most of history, algorithms were mathematical procedures. ...

Joe Rigney’s recasting of Edwin Friedman’s A Failure of Nerve is insightful, relevant, practical, well-organized, and short. I highly recommend it for men, women, and teens. It also serves well for group study and discussion....

Brian’s Recommendations:1)    Charles Williams, Forgiveness (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1942)Charles Williams—poet, novelist, lay theologian, and one of the lesser-known members of the Inklings—brings his distinctive blend of imagination and theology to the topic of forgiveness. While Lewis and Tolkien are more familiar names, Williams played a significant role withi...

Daniel’s RecommendationPatrick Kavanaugh, The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1992).We live in a culture where the forces of expressionism, postmodernism, nihilism, scientism, and consumerism have steadily eroded the meaning of beauty and reduced music to background noise or commercial manipulation. Sound surrounds us almost constantly, yet we rarely stop to l...