Books
Index Of Biblical Images
Warren W. Wiersbe Baker Books, 2000 ISBN 0 8010 9107 1 This is a charming little book. It has a table of contents, which is entirely redundant, given the nature of the book. The other 115 pages are entirely index. The book catalogs over 400 similes, metaphors and symbols in alphabetical order, pointing to Scripture […]
A Devil’s Chaplain
A callous world Richard Holloway finds Richard Dawkins insisting that nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent, in his collection of essays, A Devil’s Chaplain Saturday February 15, 2003 The Guardian A Devil’s Chaplain & Other Selected Essays by Richard Dawkins 320pp, Weidenfeld, £16.99 Richard Dawkins’s new book, which is a punchy collection of articles, […]
Conversations With God (Walsch)
Someone on the aus.religion.christian newsgroup asked about this book, which I hadn’t heard of. Here are some preliminary comments. Interesting… Conversations With God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book #1) by Neale Donald Walsch (Introduction)n 1992, Neale Donald Walsch was nearing 50 and feeling less than happy with his life–his four marriages had failed, his relationships […]
Transforming Rituals
Roy M. Oswald & Jean Morris Trumbauer, Transforming Rituals (Alban Institute, 1999) One of the primary motifs of contemporary missiology, and one of its most promising streams, is transformation. It’s at the heart of much of what we do in mission and evangelism today. We facilitate personal or social/structural change. We serve as gadflies to […]
Film: Bruce Almighty
From a friend (who is a rural pastor): We don’t get to see many new release films up here, but I saw Jim Carrey’s new one Bruce Almighty this week. As I headed out the door, my son said it would raise interesting theological issues about prayer and God. The idea of the plot is […]
Bernard Wasserstein: Israel And Palestine – Why They Fight And Can They Stop?
Bernard Wasserstein was born in London in 1948, educated at Oxford and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is currently Professor of History at Glasgow University and a visiting Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. This book grew out of the Leonard Stein Lecture Series that Wasserstein delivered at Balliol College, Oxford, […]
Ideology Reloaded
By Slavoj Zizek | 6.6.03 . There is something inherently naïve about taking the “philosophical” underpinning of The Matrix series seriously and discussing its implications. The Wachowski brothers, who wrote and directed the films, are not philosophers, but just two guys who flirt with and exploit, in an often confused way, some “postmodern” and New […]
New Baptists New Agenda
Nigel G. Wright, New Baptists, New Agenda (Paternoster, 2002) Reviewed by Rod Benson This book, by the Principal of Spurgeon’s College, London, and President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, assesses the recent experience of British Baptists, and offers a thoughtful agenda for Baptist ministry in a pluralist and increasingly postdenominational culture. While he […]
Matrix: New Testament On Steroids
The point of speculative ideas and science fictional treatments is not to foster propaganda (though many do so, usually obviously and unsuccessfully), but to make us think. As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church. Movies are another […]
Bruce Almighty Movie
JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)–To what lengths will society go for entertainment? Outrageous athlete salaries, ridiculous reality TV shows and voyeuristic sitcoms featuring desperately dysfunctional families like the Osbornes have now been topped by Hollywood’s “Bruce Almighty,” a motion picture created for the mindless entertainment of the masses. In addition to growing tired of all that is […]
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