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Here are the books I've read in January. While some the sections here are more traditional "book review-y" than others, these aren't intended to be formal book reviews but rather just my overall impressions and thoughts as I finish each book.   In this post (click to skip to section): Thomas Jefferson  by Joyce Appleby How Does Sanctification Work? by David Powlison The Preacher Behind the White Hoods  by John Collins Thomas Jefferson By Joyce Appleby This is part of the American Presidents Series published by Times Books. This set (minus two volumes) was gifted to me a while back and I've started reading through them. Last year I read the volumes on George Washington and John Adams. The bullet points here represent my impressions on this volume, followed by one critique I would have of the book. I'm not educated enough on the American presidents to offer my critique or evaluation of this biography in terms of its historical accuracy. From Appleby's presen...

Edit: at the time of writing, Joe Biden is not the president-elect. I wrote this anticipating that he would eventually become the president-elect, but failed to make it clear that he is merely projected to be the president-elect. The electoral college votes on December 14th. Joe Biden, Projected President-Elect of the United States (at least, he is for now) Well, this has been quite the week. Obviously, things are far from "over" as we all anticipate the inevitable legal and court battle over the election results. My anticipation is that things will stand as they are, with Joe Biden being the President-Elect of the United States. If there was no widespread voter fraud, then Biden is the legitimate President-Elect and should be dutifully sworn into office in January. But even if there was significant voter fraud that swung the election from Trump to Biden, I'm a bit skeptical that our system that allowed this to occur in the first place will be the knight in shining armor ...