Books
Atlas Shrugged
*Sightings* 10/15/07 *Atlas Shrugged* at Fifty — Martin E. Marty W. C. Fields, as previously noted in *Sightings*, once announced that he’d spent years studying the Bible, looking for a loophole. For fifty years Christian and other leaders have been reading the Bible looking for one line in it that might justify the popular philosophy […]
Evan Almighty (movie)
EVAN ALMIGHTY (G) Starring Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman Evan Baxter (Steve Carell), you may recall, was the tormented nemesis of the all-powerful Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) in Bruce Almighty. In the sequel, Bruce is absent and we pick up Evan’s story three years later. At an estimated cost of $175 million […]
Tracing the Footsteps of God (C. S. Song)
C. S. Song, Tracing the Footsteps of God: Discovering What You Really Believe, Fortress Press, 2007. Here’s a readable introduction to ‘modern mainline liberal Christian theology’ by a professor of theology (Pacific School of Religion) who is also sufficiently esteemed in his denomination (Reformed Churches) to have been voted president of their world body. Professor […]
Evan Almighty (movie)
Jan and I attended a preview of this crazy movie last night, and enjoyed it. Briefly: this sequel to Bruce Almighty is a comedy of biblical proportions, reportedly costing $175 million (perhaps the most expensive comedy ever?). Steve Carell (‘Evan Baxter’) is a newly-elected senator on Capitol Hill. What he doesn’t know is that he’s […]
September Dawn
*Sightings* 9/13/07 September Dud — Seth Perry On September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons and Native Americans slaughtered over 120 members of a wagon train passing through southern Utah in what became known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The event is a blot of abiding shame on the frontier heritage Mormons revere, and has […]
Chamberlain and the Nazis; Bush and Iraq
Sept. 9, 2007 By Harry T. Cook When history is the subject, one has a choice between the notoriously loopy pronouncement of Henry Ford upon it (History is bunk), or this more prolix sentiment from the pen of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: If men could but learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But […]
People In Glass Houses (Hillsong)
Craig Brown has written a review on the new book on Hillsong. It appeared in the Churches of Christ web journal Aug 07. ———————————————— People In Glass Houses is going to cause a fair bit of controversy in Christian circles. Written by Tanya Levin (a very ex-member of Hillsong church in Sydney), it documents her […]
Simply Christian, N.T. Wright
‘Simply Christian’, N.T. Wright, 2006 This is one of the latest offerings from N.T. Wright, the current Bishop of Durham in England. Subtitled ‘why Christianity makes sense’, it is a brilliant layout of the faith for seekers, doubters and anyone needing a good solid grounding in how the story all fits together. Written in the […]
Severus Snape and the Transparency of Evil
Sightings 7/19/07 — Elizabeth Musselman On July 21, children across the country will stay up all night reading as the narrative of Harry Potter draws to a close. Many adults will also stay up all night reading the final chapters in J. K. Rowling’s imaginative epic of teenage wizards negotiating the forces of good and […]
People in Glass Houses (Hillsong)
(Note from Rowland: There are several articles on this site about Hillsong: expressing varying points of view. I regularly get emails complaining about some articles here which are, they say, ‘biassed’. When I ask them to give the ‘other’ side of the story with the relevant authoritative data, I have never heard from them again). […]
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