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Brief Notice: New Old Paper Uploaded to My Academia Account

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Oct 12, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Brief Notices, Graduate Papers, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Resources

I just uploaded a paper to my Academia account. Find it here.

Will, Sensibility, and Tangents

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 26, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Random Commentary, Resources

Below: some preliminary remarks on a terminological issue related to a book in progress. The book: George Will’s The Conservative Sensibility (New York: Hachette Books, 2019). The issue: “This is a republic, not a democracy—let’s keep it that...

Compulsiveness Prompts Letters, Emails, and (So Much) More

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 26, 2019 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary

Welcome to this latest edition in my “…Prompts Letter(s)” series. The materials following should bring you and this site up to date. Not addressed in detail in my various items below, though touched upon by one of them, is the efforts by Democrats to...

Just How Evil Is Tucker Carlson?

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 18, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Random Commentary

The mainstream media were briefly abuzz last week over left-liberal Media Matters’ unearthing of some old Tucker Carlson audio. Media Matters’ Madeline Peltz begins her related article (topically organized transcript collection) with a summary of...

Zuhdi Jasser: Is Enlightenment Reason-Worship Cure for Islamism?

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 23, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Random Commentary

Image: Islamic symbol modified for the Pious Eye site by David M. Hodges. Based upon a work by Wikimedia user DonovanCrow, used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license and available from Wikimedia Commons. In accord with that license, this modified image may itself be used...

Michael Barrett on the KJV: An Excellent and Edifying Presentation

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 4, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Brief Notices, Resources

Another one for your queue (video or audio): Michael Barrett speaks on the “Tradition, Text, and Translation of the KJV.” Highly recommended.

One Lord, One Faith, One Olive Tree

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 29, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Brief Notices, Resources

Covenant theology is not “replacement” theology. Its point is that the olive tree that is God’s people, the church, is a single tree, not two trees growing side by side with different promises and different futures (Romans 11). Though I don’t...

Christ-Centered Hermeneutics: A Binge-Worthy Video Series

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 20, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Brief Notices

While, from a Bible-believing perspective, popular entertainment never merits the “binge-worthy” descriptor, it turns out there are some online resources that do. Combining a speaker’s presentation of sound theology with a digitally generated...

Visit (to Library) Prompts Letter (to Publisher): Sikh Edition

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 14, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere

This is a letter I just wrote to an organization promoting Sikhism, the youngest of the so-called “world religions.” Encountering some Sikh beliefs in a recent editing project, I became curious, visited my local library, and checked out the Sikh Religion...

Worth Reading…with Healthy Skepticism: Carrin’s Spirit-Empowered Theology

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 6, 2017 | Book (& Other) Reviews

Carrin, Charles, D.D. Spirit-Empowered Theology. Minneapolis: Chosen, 2007. 351 pages. $19.99 retail. ISBN 978-0-8007-9817-8. I am not part of the signs-and-wonders (Pentecostal, charismatic, and Third Wave) movement, nor has this book tempted me to join up. Though my...