Musings of a Snickerdoodle

This book was a very educational read for me, helping me understand more about our government as a representative republic.   In this book, Mr. Arnn explains why the Founders constituted the Constitution the way the way they did.  Apparently there are people who think that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are contradictory.  One declares freedom while the other institutes rules/law.  Larry Arnn demonstrates that this is not the case, that the documents are actually complementary.  The Declaration is not pro-anarchy, it is actually pro-government; it is not anti-government but pro-good government.  America's founding fathers broke off from England, not because they desired to be free of government, but  because they believed that they were not being governed rightly by England.  The Declaration declares how the government in England abused it's authority.   Rebuking the bad government of England it declares ...

What constitutes a 'happy ending' in our eyes?  Usually it is the protagonist of the story receiving all that he ever hoped for, all he ever wanted.  The stories that we like to read, watch or hear about are not usually those in which the main character is mistreated the whole of their life.  If the person has a happy end to their life, I suppose we could live with that.  But  what about a story where someone lives and dies unloved, hated, persecuted, materially poor and who doesn't get his promised inheritance? A person who lives every day killing their own dreams, desires and aspirations, and this deliberately?  Not trying to be their own person, but Another's? A person who determines to ignore their own heart and follow Another's?  A person who doesn't assert their own 'rights' but lets others trample on them?  Would we consider that a happy ending?  From a human perspective, I think not.    And yet, these are people s...

Teems writes weird. By 'weird', I don't mean bad, I just mean 'different'. I wouldn't call this book an account of Tyndale's life, rather, I would call it a 'conversation/discussion' of his life. Perhaps my choice of words seems strange as one can't really have a conversation or a discussion without a participant; but those are the words that come to mind. In a sense, I did feel as though I was participating. Mr. Teems gives you his own thoughts about different events, stating what he finds humorous, and giving his opinion of the various 'characters' in Tyndale's day. You may agree or disagree with what he thinks. He strikes me as a 'one-on-one' teacher; one who gives you, not only the people, time period, events, books and letters that were written, but gets you to think about them, to ponder certain questions, he gets your thoughts rolling.  For instance, he'll give you Tyndale's translation of ...