John Baker’s Blog

1. Why do you blog?
Initially it was to keep in touch with friends and family while overseas, but I’ve been back now for close to a year. I continued to blog upon my return because I enjoy it. I also have a compulsion to write.
2. Which author and/or book has most influenced you?
Ten years ago [...]

1. Why do you blog?
I started out blogging because I felt like I had something to say and blogging was an easy way to put it “out there.” I guess I blog now because it has been integrated into my life. Book blogging has become a hobby. I have contacts and [...]

Herbert Read argued, in 1933, that the modernist movement had produced the greatest seismic change of all time. We were not, he wrote, concerned with an unprecedented development. But with an abrupt break with all tradition. The aim of five centuries of European effort is openly abandoned.
Twenty years later, C S Lewis, referred to the [...]