Category Archives: Books

How The Bard and the Bible began

Posted on April 17, 2018 by

I get mixed reactions when I tell people about my book, The Bard and the Bible (A Shakespeare Devotional).

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Reviewsday: Fools and Mortals

Posted on March 6, 2018 by

I love historical fiction in general, but I absolutely love novels about Shakespeare, Elizabethan/Jacobean England, and more. So I was excited to read Bernard Cornwell’s January 2018 release, Fools and Mortals. 

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The Shakespeare Society of America

Posted on February 27, 2018 by

On a recent visit with my wife to California, our son, daughter-in-law, and grandkids treated me to a visit to the Shakespeare Society of America museum, reference library, and gift shop in the oceanside town of Moss Landing, California. 

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My Top 10 Shakespeare Moments in 2017

Posted on January 2, 2018 by

The Bard and the Bible (A Shakespeare Devotional) winning the Selah Awards 2017 Book of the Year (see photo above).  Enjoying The Tempest live at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.  Being mesmerized by the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s opening production of A Midsummer … Continue reading →

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Reviewsday: A Novel Journal, Shakespeare Edition

Posted on October 31, 2017 by

While in Louisville, Kentucky, recently, I visited a bookstore with a few friends, and there discovered a delightful and different journal: “a novel journal,” it’s called. It is one of several volumes published by Thunder Bay Press. Of course, the … Continue reading →

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Reviewsday: The Bard and the Bible

Posted on August 29, 2017 by

It has now been a year since the release of The Bard and the Bible: A Shakespeare Devotional, so it’s a great time to revisit a few of my favorite reviews of the book. The first is a review on … Continue reading →

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Reviewsday: Hag-Seed

Posted on August 1, 2017 by

Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed: A Novel is a wonderful concept, more-than-ably written. It is a retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, woven around a prison production of, well, Shakespeare’s The Tempest.  Hag-Seed is one of the Hogarth Shakespeare series, in which famous modern novelists write … Continue reading →

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