Category: Books

Here are three related books that have fallen into the same pile by my easy chair for two reasons: (1) They are roughly about church and politics/society. (2) I happen to already own them. (3) I'm embarking on a bit of an...

We have been reading The Lord of the Rings as a family and we are currently approaching the Cirith Ungol with Frodo, Sam and Golum. Cathy does a great job with the voices and characters and most nights when she finishes there is...

If you've been around theology and philosophy you probably know about Friedrich Nietzsche's famous statement that "God is dead." (You may be unaware of some of the follow ups such as "Nietzsche is dead - God" and "God is dead,...

Just finished Ben Witherington's new little book, Is there a Doctor in the House? It has a bit of the feel of a reminiscence but is mainly advice for younger folk who are thinking about becoming Christian scholars. It is...

Farewell Rob Bell: we've moved on to other controversies now. In the latest Norm Geisler has taken up once again the standard of "defender of Orthodoxy, with particular reference to innerancy." Last year Mike Licona wrote a...

The description of this book resonates with my own sentiment that neuroscience has been seriously overplayed in many areas. Another one for the list! "In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims...

The next time I have a few bucks, Justification: Five Views is the book I'm buying. Not only is it very timely given the debates these days between traditional reformed views and NPP (New Perspective on Paul), as probably...

Both CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud grew up in religious homes. For Lewis it was Irish Protestantism, while Freud’s family was Jewish. But as they developed in their thinking and as they left their mark on culture they arrived at...

Sometimes a topic gets to me and I can't do anything else until I've written about it. Case in point: Barth Ehrman's latest shocking book, Forged. Following his m.o., Ehrman is very provocative and oversteps the actual data...

I'll just do this last post in this and then I'll stop. Honestly, I'm not like obsessed with this issue, but sometimes you just fell like you want to say something others haven't said. I've got one each for detractors and...