Monthly Archives: August 2020

When Everything Fits Together

Posted on August 31, 2020 by nathanalbright

One of the most fortunate things that can happen when one is planning a message or doing songleading for services is when everything fits together. This does not always happen, although it is seldom the case that people devote their … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Russian Civil War

Posted on August 31, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Russian Civil War, by Evan Mawdsley In many ways, reading this book is sort of like the opposite experience of reading about the experience of the American or Spanish or Finnish Civil Wars, for example. In those latter two … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The White Generals

Posted on August 31, 2020 by nathanalbright

The White Generals:  An Account Of The White Movement And The Russian Civil War, by Richard Luckett Any time we deal with the past there is the question of the inevitability of the past.  In retrospect, we know that the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Memoirs Of A Bolshevik

Posted on August 31, 2020 by nathanalbright

Memoirs Of A Bolshevik, by O. Piatnitsky In reading this short book, where the author proudly displays his misguided loyalty to Lenin and his devotion to Communist revolutionary politics, a nagging feeling came to me that for sure this author … Continue reading →

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They Will Look Upon Me Whom They Pierced: Part Two

Posted on August 30, 2020 by nathanalbright

[Note: This is the prepared text for a sermonette given to the Portland, Oregon congregation of the United Church of God on Sabbath, August 29, 2020.] Just a bit more than six months ago, as we approached the Passover and … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Rider Haggard: A Biography

Posted on August 30, 2020 by nathanalbright

Rider Haggard: A Biography, by D.S. Higgins Rider Haggard is the sort of person whose complex personality and historical legacy as a novelist are something I can well appreciate. Although he became enduringly famous as an adventure novelist, he had … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Rider Haggard And The Lost Empire

Posted on August 30, 2020 by nathanalbright

Rider Haggard And The Lost Empire: A Biography, by Tom Pocock This book has a strange elegiac tone about it, in that it is discussing someone who had a great deal of what might conventionally be considered as success but … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Rider Haggard

Posted on August 30, 2020 by nathanalbright

Ridger Haggard, by Norman Etherington Like many people, I am only familiar with the subject of his book from one of his noted romances, King Solomon’s Mines [1], which I saw as a generally enjoyable adventure story, as well as … Continue reading →

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Ziply Fibber

Posted on August 29, 2020 by nathanalbright

Yesterday morning I was irritated when I woke up to find that I had no internet at home. This is an occasional experience but not a terribly common one, and I figured I would check it out when I got … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Discontent And Its Civilizations: Dispatches From Lahore, London, And New York

Posted on August 29, 2020 by nathanalbright

Discontent And Its Civilizations: Dispatches From Lahore, London, And New York, by Mohsin Hamid It is entirely impossible to take this author wholly seriously in terms of his observations of the world. It is not difficult to see why it … Continue reading →

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