Anthem by Ayn Rand
My rating on Goodreads.com: 2 of 5 stars
This is not so much a novel as it is a sermon. It starts out looking like there will be an interesting story, but ends up being just a vehicle for Rand to preach her individualist gospel.
Anthem is set in a distant future when [...]
A popular series of commercials for a consumer credit company used the running gag of a group of barbarians invading everyday, modern situations, symbolizing what can happen to people when they don’t have sufficient capital to do the things they want to do. Just as the horde is about to begin their slaughter and pillage, [...]
On this Resurrection Day (Easter, to those who prefer gods with long ears made out of chocolate), I want to welcome the resurrection of one of my favorite blogs: Sibboleth by my dear friend, Fuller Seminary professor J. R. Daniel Kirk. He is just back online after a Lenten Internet fast.
Daniel is one of the [...]
This must be why mystics and poets record /
The slender incursions of splintered light, /
Echoes, fragments, odd words and phrases /
Like flashes through darkened hallways. - Rod Jellema