Editor’s note: This review was originally published on July 29, 2010. It is re-posted now to supplement the Living Word exhibition of Biblical manuscripts, artifacts, and early printed Bibles taking place at the Regent University Library from March 20th to March 23rd. Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible, by Robert Alter [...]

Style by F. L. Lucas. (Petersfield, Hampshire, Great Britain: Harriman House, 2012), 263 pages, ISBN 978-0-85719-187-8 Reviewed by Harold Henkel, Associate Librarian “I would say to [William] Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: ‘Read over your compositions and where ever you meet with a passage which you [...]

A Christian Woman’s Secret: A Modern-Day Journey to God by Lilian Staveley, edited by Joseph A. Fitzgerald, foreword by Phillip Zaleski. (Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2008), 144 pages, ISBN 978-1-933316-58-1 Reviewed by Mara Lief Crabtree, DMin, OSL Lilian Bowdoin Staveley, (1878-1928), published three accounts of her spiritual life: The Prodigal Returns, The Romance of the [...]

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart. ‒Nelson Mandela Regent students, staff, and faculty wanting to brush-up on a foreign language or learn a new one have access to online software from [...]

Chess and the Art of Negotiation: Ancient Rules for Modern Combat, by Anatoly Karpov and Jean-François Phelizon, with Bachar Kouatly. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2006. How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom, by Garry Kasparov, with Mig Greengard. New York: Bloomsbury, 2007. Reviewed by Harold Henkel, Associate Librarian Anatoly [...]