The Marginal Virtues

In the Dungeons & Dragons adventure The Sunless Citadel , written by Bruce R. Cordell , there is an epigraph heading one of the section...

[Ed. This is the text of a sermon I preached at St Albans Church , Ottawa, on Sunday, July 21, 2013. The texts on which my sermon was based ...

Many thanks to Sarah for recommending this book! Kay Redfield Jamison, the author of An Unquiet Mind , is a Professor of Psychiatry at Joh...

First, my thanks to Deborah for recommending this book! The Guns of August , by Barbara Tuchman, is the first (it probably won't be...

First, my thanks to Graham for recommending Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver! In the Acknowledgements, Stephenson writes about some of...

[ Ed. This is the text of the sermon which I preached at St Albans Church in Ottawa on Trinity Sunday, 26 May 2013. ] These days it oft...

In my post for last month's selection, you may recall, I noted that I would be choosing only one book from the back burner for October;...

I was asked to put a recent sermon I preached online. As I have written about sermons before here on The Marginal Virtues , I decided to p...

The Lord of the Rings has many great passages, one of which, early on, concerns Gollum. Gandalf paints a dark portrait of the tormented Ha...

In The Guns of August , a book for which I am writing a marginal commentary, Barbara Tuchman, in true Biblical style, conflates Job 39.25, ...