Farm Fresh Southern Cooking is a great looking cookbook. While the version I have is digital, I think I would think about getting the hardcover. The pages do a great job supporting the feel of the text. The photos are pristine and enticing. The recipes are different than what I’d find in our other cookbooks. So, that’s definitely a plus. Good to have variety. And, this one really pushes farm [...]
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What better book to get a hold of as the warm weather approaches and the grilling season truly begins (here in Bakersfield, grilling season runs about 11 months)? Simply Grilling from Jennifer Chandler is a wonderful addition to our grilling sessions. There are 105 recipes, though not all of them are actually grill-related. One of my favorite recipes was the Grasshopper Icebox Cake, which is a no-bake, ice cream cake. [...]
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Michael Gerson is a great regular read. He has made some very ponderable points regarding religion and politics over the time I’ve been reading his articles. His latest piece, Politicians giving religion a bad name, hits the nail on the head. The first paragraph alone is makes an excellent observation on this election year’s current religious conundrum: Religion in the 2012 presidential election is the topic that will launch a [...]
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I picked up this text hoping it would present a good case. I don’t like to read only sources and pieces that obviously support what I already believe. I appreciate folks who listen to “the other side” and engage with them. But what I found in Dr. Richard Lee’s The Coming Revolution was an incredibly unbalanced portrayal of the US, with an incredible lack of respect for the study of [...]
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I wonder how the evangelical community will vote on election night. But, more importantly, why will they vote they way they will? Not for the sake of the elections. That doesn’t concern me right now. But for the sake of the evangelical community. While Romney is going to be the GOP nominee, Rick Santorum is doing really well among conservative evangelicals. Before the field of candidates was whittled down, a group of evangelical [...]
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Earl Henslin’s This is Your Brain in Love is essentially a relationship, marriage help book that takes a little different angle of approach when it comes to being the best you can be in a relationship. My wife and I have gone through all sorts of love/marriage/relationship/communication/etc. books within small groups or Sunday School classes. I was interested in checking this text out because it enters the discussion from more [...]
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As something of a follow up to my earlier post regarding the recently opened Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (found here), I point you to a piece from CNN about some other not-so-favorable comments. Now, these comments aren’t the be all end all but they continue to force us to think a little deeper about the meaning and significance of not only Dr. King, his legacy, his message, his [...]
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