Welcome
to my home page!
I'm an analytic philosopher,
homemaker, home schooling mom, and author.
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don’t be offended if I ignore a Facebook “friend” request, since I ignore most
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My books
Now available
Book trailer here
The
Eye of the Beholder: The Gospel of John as Historical Reportage
Here is the Table of
Contents for The Eye of the Beholder.
Here is a PDF of the
endorsements, including blurbs by J. P. Moreland, Stanley Porter, J. W.
Montgomery, Paul N. Anderson, Thomas Schreiner, Craig Blomberg, Alan Thompson,
and more.
Free samples! Here is a PDF of Chapter I. Here
is a PDF of the conclusion. (Note: The conclusion comes before the appendix.)
Here is a video about
the forthcoming release and endorsements. Follow my Facebook Author page (be
sure to set your settings to receive notifications) for fuller blurbs and
information.
The Mirror or the Mask: Liberating the Gospels From
Literary Devices is available both in
paper and in Kindle. Get it by clicking on the link at DeWard
Publishing (fulfillment by Amazon), through Amazon itself, or through Barnes
& Noble. (Kindle version is available only from Amazon.)
For a written interview on the
book and what it’s all about, see Cogent Christianity,
here.
Hidden in Plain View: Undesigned Coincidences in the
Gospels and Acts was published in
2017 by DeWard Publishing and is available both in paperback and in Kindle.
Order from Amazon
or from Barnes
& Noble. If you are in the
Here
is my
Youtube channel. Be sure to like, subscribe, and hit the bell for notifications
Here
is the Youtube playlist for my Mirror or the Mask response series, responding
to Dr. Michael Licona’s summer, 2020 video series. Here
are the blog posts associated with my responses. Here
is the playlist for a series by my husband, Timothy McGrew, on undesigned
coincidences. Be sure to check out other playlists on the channel, including
the Virgin
Birth, the feeding
of the five thousand, and more.
Blogs and
Webinars
This was my personal blog and is now my blog-of-all-trades. It includes Christian reflections, hymn discussions, apologetics, politics, and much more. Be sure to check out the evidentialism, New Testament, apologetics, etc. tags on the left sidebar. An archival project has recently been completed at Extra Thoughts to try to archive all of my biblical studies and apologetics content from What’s Wrong With the World. Old posts that are reposted from What’s Wrong With the World are labeled as such.
I am chiefly using Facebook for updates now. Remember, you do not have to be my Facebook “friend” to follow my public content.
This has been my group blog for many years. Here is my author page where you can browse all of my columns posted on this blog. The blog addresses pro-life issues, cultural issues, politics, New Testament studies, and apologetics.
Note: The links at What’s Wrong With the World are at this time not always stable, unfortunately. (I do not own the site.) By all means, try the links below, but you may find that some ways of navigating work better than others--for example, navigating through my author page rather than through the tags. Check out Extra Thoughts for old-new archived content that has been reposted from What’s Wrong With the World. The original date will be on all old posts.
My New
Testament posts at What’s Wrong With
the World
My New Testament posts specifically on the Gospel of John.
My 2017 series on the literary device theory of Dr. Michael Licona and others. See here for synopses of all posts in the 2017 Licona series and here for all posts on this topic.
Some more undesigned coincidence posts. These include a few coincidences from the Old Testament as well.
Webinars at
Apologetics Academy
Find all of the webinars that Tim McGrew and I have done for
More about me
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St. Patrick's Anglican Catholic Church (continuing Anglican)
in
An archive for those few of my papers that I have been allowed to put on-line.
Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Western Michigan University, aka Esteemed Husband. If you are especially interested in Tim's work on the New Testament and apologetic subjects, some of his resources are collected here and many more can be found by Googling. See also the Library of Historical Apologetics. See here for Tim’s lecture “Why Are There Differences in the Gospels?” on the traditional view of the historicity of the Gospels and its contrasts with various “literary device” views.
My extras
Some curriculum material I
have written for teaching young children to read.
Transcripts of the testimony
of Diane Meyer, Joan Schiavo, and Scott Schiavo at the 2000 trial concerning
Terri Schiavo. Transcript of the entire trial testimony, including Mrs.
Schindler. These original trial documents are difficult if not impossible to
find elsewhere on-line.
Contact me by e-mail:
lydiamcgrew [@] gmail [dot] com or lydiamcgrew
[@] yahoo [dot] com
Some part of the site updated most recently April 13,
2021.