Books
Star Wars
>From a ‘Net friend: John Caputo, perhaps America’s leading Catholic philosopher, described (in a book) the Star Wars saga as the ‘religious narrative of our time’. He identified the ways in which Star Wars gathers and redeploys religious language and practices from the great world religions, Christianity included. Star Wars is not certainly not Christianity, […]
Eugene Peterson’s Subversive Spirituality
From a pastor-friend: One of the books I brought with me on this trip into the future is by one of my literary heroes, who also happens to be a Christian brother, thus one of our modern day heroes of the faith. Eugene Peterson is in his 80s. He has been a pastor and a […]
Best Fiction
My List of the10 Best Fiction Books: 1. J R R Tolkein – The Lord of the Rings A masterpiece in conception and imagination. Something for Christians to aspire to. 2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Brother Karamazov The psychological interplay is wonderful. 3. Franz Kafka – The Castle The ultimate modern nightmare. 4. Jonathon Swift […]
Stephen Wolfram: Complex Systems Theory
Throughout the natural and artificial world one observes phenomena of great complexity. Yet research in physics and to some extent biology and other fields has shown that the basic components of many systems are quite simple. It is now a crucial problem for many areas of science to elucidate the mathematical mechanisms by which large […]
The Jesuits
Are the Jesuits Catholic? A review of “Passionate Uncertainty.” by Paul Shaughnessy 06/03/2002, Volume 007, Issue 37 Passionate Uncertainty Inside the American Jesuits by Peter McDonough and Eugene C. Bianchi University of California Press, 380 pp., $29.95 “MY DEAR FELLOW, we all see the difficulties that beset any notion of a revealed religion,” says an […]
Evangelical Sales Are Converting Publishers
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK or decades, the world of Evangelical Christianity was as remote from the New York literary scene as the Bible Belt is from the canyons of Times Square. Now, as surging sales are propelling avowedly Evangelical books to the top of even the mainstream best-seller lists, the major publishing houses are getting […]
The Essence Of Feminism
by Kirstin Burkett (Matthias Media, 2000) Created or Constructed? The Great Gender Debate by Elaine Storkey (Paternoster, 2000) (reviewed by Rod Benson in Mosaic Vol. 4 No. 2, Winter 2002) Here are two recently published books on gender roles and gender relations written by Anglican women who I would call evangelical-yet they are worlds apart. […]
Stealing Sheep: The Church’s Hidden Problems
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-127 (Book Review) STEALING SHEEP: THE CHURCH’S HIDDEN PROBLEMS WITH TRANSFER GROWTH by William Chadwick. InterVarsity Press, 2001. Reviewed by Bill Muehlenberg, a lecturer in ethics and apologetics at various Melbourne Bible colleges, and PhD candidate at Deakin University. This book has a sobering and timely message: most churches have stopped growing. […]
A Walk To Remember (Movie)
From a couple of ‘Net-friends We saw, “A Walk to Remember”, a film about a teenage romance that led a guy to change his life. It has a clear religious message. Might be suitable for youth groups. A bit of foul language, but realistic and nothing they wouldn’t be familiar with. It’s also a good […]
Important Books On The Influence Of Media
Prepared by Rose Pacatte, fsp Director, Pauline Center for Media Studies 50 Saint Pauls Avenue Boston, MA 02130-3491 The following books form a basic resource library for educators, parents and pastoral ministers wishing to gain a background in media education and to teach media awareness in the classroom or in group settings, at home, school […]
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