March 2026 Reading

The Essential Marcuse- Marcuse, Feenberg and Leiss  (2007) Eleven selected writings by the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse.  Some of these didn’t interest me much at all, so I

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February 2026 Reading

Ulysses- James Joyce  (1920) I bought this book years ago because it’s on almost every list of classic literature. But I couldn’t understand it, and after

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January 2026 Reading

Fascism: A Readers Guide- Walter Laqueur (1976) The book is a series of articles talking about various aspects of fascism. The most interesting for me was Zeev Sternhell’s article on

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Jesus and Church Protests

A tweet from John Pavlovitz said:   “Conservative Christians clutching their pearls at people of conscience disrupting their worship gathering to call out hypocrisy and abuses of power

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Fascism’s Ideology

We hear the word “fascist” a lot in today’s political climate, mainly thrown at those on the right as an epithet. It seems to be

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2025 Recap

2025 was an event-filled year.  Changed ChurchesTo set a bit of a back story, at the end of 2024, we decided to leave the church

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December 2025 Reading

I have read 88 books this year, which is a new record for me. But, sadly, I’ll have to dial it back….starting from this month.Having

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November 2025 Reading

Gerusalemme liberata- Torquato Tasso  (1581) So soon after having finished the Divine Comedy, I was reluctant to involve myself with another epic poem in archaic Italian. But

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