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Philosophy: A Mini-Course on Epistemology
http://radicalacademy.com/prcminicourseepistemology1.htm
Religion row hits Pullman epic
Dark Materials movie softens book’s attacks on Catholic church Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent Sunday October 14, 2007 The Observer One of the key religious themes of Philip Pullman’s award-winning series of children’s novels, His Dark Materials, has been watered down to appeal to a wider audience in the new Hollywood film version of […]
Important Articles etc.
From a friend in the UK: A lot of my reading recently, to state it as succinctly as I can, has related to the role of faith in our society. With the problems of Islamic terrorism in our country there is an upsurge in secularism and atheism (as well as fear and intolerance). Two books […]
Why the Christian Right is Wrong
Subtitled: ‘A Minister’s Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future’, by Robin Meyers, Wiley, 2006. The cover blurb sums it up well: ‘I join the ranks of those who are angry, because I have watched as the faith I love has been taken over by fundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus […]
Ben Stein’s Last Column
Ben Stein’s Last Column… For many years Ben Stein has written a biweekly column called “Monday Night At Morton’s.” (Morton’s is a famous chain of Steakhouses known to be frequented by movie stars and famous people from around the globe.) Now, Ben is terminating the column to move on to other things in his life. […]
Project Gutenberg: top 100 authors
Top 100 Authors last 30 days 1. Twain, Mark (47307) 2. Shakespeare, William (30660) 3. Dickens, Charles (30641) 4. Thomson, J. Arthur (29762) 5. Miles, Alexander (27908) 6. Thomson, Alexis (27908) 7. Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir (26513) 8. Austen, Jane (24637) 9. Verne, Jules (19682) 10. Lacroix, Paul (19287) 11. Lang, Andrew (18825) 12. Marshall, […]
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover) by Paul Collier (Author) Some Amazon.com Reviews: Realism about Global Poverty, October 17, 2007 By Robert B. Reese Paul Collier. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It. New York: […]
The Dawkins Delusion?
Book Review – The Dawkins Delusion?, Alister McGrath with Joanna Collicutt McGrath, 2007 This is a timely book that was needed to expose some of the nonsense that Richard Dawkins has put forward in his book The God Delusion. It is to be recommended if you struggle with some of the arguments that Dawkins has […]
TV’s Leap of Faith
*Sightings* 10/18/07 — Mark I. Pinsky Imagine the Hollywood pitch meeting: Producers try to convince cable television executives to green light a new series about a burned out Oklahoma City homicide detective named Grace. She smokes, drinks, swears, looks for love in all the wrong places, and is played by Holly Hunter. So far, so […]
Irresistible Revolution (Shane Claiborne)
(Zondervan, 2006). Shane Claiborne looks, speaks, and dresses like an Old Testament prophet (or John the Baptist). And he makes the same sort of crazy sense. (But he’s had a better formal education than most of them). He’s a young (my guess: 30s) idealistic American, who spent time with Mother Teresa’s helpers in India, and […]
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