Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
May 12, 2007

Book Review: _Me, Myself, & Bob_

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : popmedia

BOOK REVIEW:

Me, Myself, & Bob
by Phil Vischer
2006 - Nelson Books
ISBN: 0785222073
I am a Veggie Tales fan, and have been for darned near a decade. My kids were born & hit the video-watching phase right about the time that VT exploded in the late 1990s. VT were well-written, had a good message, great humor, and appealed [...]


September 9, 2006

Brown’s noise

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : zeitgeist

A few weeks back, I finally broke down and gave in. On a trip to the local public library, I checked out copies of Dan Brown’s novels Angels & Devils and The DaVinci Code. Even more, I actually read them!
Vast amounts of ink have been spilled reviewing, discussing, bemoaning, and condemning these novels, especially [...]


September 9, 2006

Book Review: _To Hell with All That_

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : zeitgeist

BOOK REVIEW:

To Hell with All That (Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife)
by Caitlin Flanagan
2006 - Little, Brown & Co.
ISBN: 0316736872
I first heard about this book in the July 1 issue of World Magazine, in which there was a brief description of the book along with an interview with the author. I was intrigued by the [...]


August 8, 2006

Book meme

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

Lemming that I am, since I’ve been tagged by the Seminarian-formerly-known-as-Vicar Lehmann & The Tarheel Lutheran, I’ll give it a whack…
nb: I’ve changed the listings from one to two/three/four books, because, well, I can & I don’t want to limit myself…
1. Two books that changed your life:

The Hammer of God by Bo Giertz
The [...]