Daily Archives: January 21, 2014

Seneca’s Pneumatology

Originally posted on the archives near Emmaus:
Seneca, LETTERS FROM A STOIC While reading through John R. (Jack) Levison’s The Spirit in First-Century Judaism I came across a quote from Seneca the Younger where in Letter 41 of his so-called “moral letters”…

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Book Write-Up: Her Good Name, by Ruth Axtell

Ruth Axtell.  Her Good Name: A Novel.  Chicago: Moody Publishers (River North Fiction), 2012. I would like to thank Moody Publishers for my review copy of this book.  See here for Moody’s page about it. Her Good Name is a … Continue reading

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Nixonland 3

On page 164 of Nixonland, Rick Perlstein states regarding Nelson Rockefeller’s brother Winthrop: “Nelson’s brother Winthrop beat Justice Jim in Arkansas—-on a platform of school prayer, opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and excoriation of HEW education commissioner Harold … Continue reading

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