by Bill Farley | Jan 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
SINCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN THE SEVENTEEN-NINETIES, a great lie has motivated every social upheaval. It is the fiction that humanity is perfectible. And if man is perfectible, if human nature is malleable, then enough social force, applied to the right people, can...
by Bill Farley | Jan 15, 2024 | book review
IF YOU ARE LIKE ME A TORENT of new terms and seemingly bizarre ideas have hit you in the last five years and you have wondered, “Where are these crazy ideas coming from? Who invented them? Why is anyone paying attention to them?” I’m thinking of the...
by Bill Farley | Dec 6, 2023 | book review, Uncategorized
I LOVE TO READ, AND THAT MEANS I READ A LOT OF BOOKS. Some books have been personal mentors. Others have just been information. They have been long forgotten. But others are deeply valued friends that have changed my thinking radically and sent me on a new trajectory....
by Bill Farley | Nov 20, 2023 | biography, book review
I READ A LOT OF BOOKS. Some I can recommend, and some I cannot. Here, however, are some recommended titles from recent months. Thomas Jefferson, A Biography of Spirit and Flesh by Thomas Kidd. When I find a historian that writes well, I read more of their books. They...
by Bill Farley | Nov 13, 2023 | spiritual warfare
THE CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN TENDS TO DOWNPLAY THE REALITY OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE. But the Bible clearly asserts that unseen spiritual entities intimidatingly named “rulers, authorities, and powers” are arrayed against us. It would be foolish to think we can...