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Public Intellectuals: A Study In Decline

By and others ⋅ January 4, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

A Hanging Judge Denis Dutton —————————————————————————- —- “CORNERING THE MARKET ON CHUTZPAH,” blared the headline on one review, and in tone it wasn’t alone. It’s not often that a book by a public intellectual has received as much media attention-mostly vilification and scorn-as Richard A. Posner’s Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline (Harvard University Press, […]

Wisdom From Gordon Macdonald

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FROM THE MACDONALD FILES by Gordon MacDonald FROM MY JOURNAL: A friend sent me Salvation in the Slums by Norris Magnuson. It’s Magnuson’s doctoral thesis, published in 1977 and reprinted by Baker in 1990. What a tremendous overview of evangelical social ministry from 1865 to 1920. I’ve harbored a sense of embarrassment over the seeming […]

Review: Why Christians Disagree About The Bible

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Review: Hugh Wetmore, ‘Why Christians Disagree When They Interpret the Bible: Finding Unity in our Loyalty to the Scriptures’, Cape Town (South Africa): Struik Christian Books, 2001. This is a book by an Evangelical (Wetmore served as national coordinator of the Evangelical Alliance of South Africa) for Evangelicals. If you roughly divide Christian theology (from […]

Review – The Two Towers Paints A Picture Of Christ

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BAPTIST PRESS December 26, 2002 Click here to download today’s Baptist Press stories: http://www.bpnews.net/storydownloadall.asp?mo=12&da=26&yr02 ******************** REVIEW The Two Towers paints a picture of Christ By Timothy Harms NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–Thousands of fans lined up dressed as their favorite characters, anxiously awaiting the stroke of midnight, while others sought out ticket scalpers for a chance to […]

Christianity A Scourge . . .

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-181 (Book Review) CHRISTANITY A SCOURGE? by Glenn Penner, reviewing “Christianity on Trial – Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry” by Vincent Carroll and David Shiflett An article in Canada’s largest newspaper The Toronto Star by theologian Tom Harpur only confirmed yet again the elasticity which with the term “Christian” is being used in […]

Films, Books, Art

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Dear Rowland From a ‘Net counsellee in the UK: ~~~ I haven’t done one of your 19 questions for a while, so I had a bit of spare time last night and was feeling a reflective mood, so here it is… 12. What books and/or movies, great works of art etc. have most influenced you? […]

Movie: A Walk To Remember

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A WALK TO REMEMBER – ‘CHRISTIAN’ FILM IN AUSTRALIAN CINEMAS By Karen Wilkinson* The film, ‘A Walk To Remember’, which created a stir in Christian media when it was released recently in the US, has topped $41 million at the box office and has broken all predictions on its release. The film starring recording artist, […]

Creative Worship Ideas For Small Groups

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Yvonne Morey. South Australia: Open Book Publishers, 2002. 151 pp. Price $16.95 Creative worship ideas for small groups has been written to provide creative ideas for small group leaders to encourage joyful and meaningful worship times. Its aim is to encourage times of worship that are God focused with a strong biblical base, enabling worshippers […]

My Pick Of Biblical Commentaries

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Rowland, In http://jmm.org.au/articles/8073.htm you wrote: I’m asking various biblical scholars for their recommendations for the best contemporary commentary for each book of the Bible (particularly as raw material for preaching, rather than for pure academic scholarship), if you could only afford one. Here’s my list of the most helpful commentary that I have on each […]

Joy Comes In The Morning (A Book About Abuse)

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Price: $21.95 Classification: New Holland Christian New Holland Publishers Pty Ltd A.B.N.14 011 842 119 Suite 411,Level 1,Building 4,14 Aquatic Drive, Frenchs Forest,NSW Australia,2086 Tel:(02)9975 6799 fax:(02)9453 3077 A member of the New Holland Struik Publishing Group PRESS RELEASE JOY COMES IN THE MORNING LETTERS TO A SURVIVOR OF ABUSE By Yvonne Retief THE BOOK […]

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