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 | Dec 15, 2022 | book review, Uncategorized
I ROUTINELY READ 40-50 books per year. With that in mind, here are a few of my favorites from the last six months. For the right person, these would make great Christmas gifts. The first is Christopher Columbus Mariner by one of America’s great historians,...
by Bill Farley | Jun 14, 2022 | book review, Uncategorized
I TYPICALLY READ ABOUT FIFTY BOOKS A YEAR. Most I read completely, but some I skim, reading only selected chapters. That’s what I did with Our Kids by Robert Putnam, professor of sociology at Harvard, which I just returned to my electronic bookshelf. But, this...
by Bill Farley | Jan 19, 2022 | book review, Uncategorized
I JUST FINISHED J. I. PACKER’S 2013 book Weakness Is The Way, a short, four-chapter introduction to 2 Corinthians. In that letter, because God perfects his strength through weakness, Paul boasts of his weakness, not his strengths. Packer’s book focuses on this...