Books
What If? [The Great Battles Of History]
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-017 (General Information) WHAT IF? by Ross Prout A fascinating new book has come on the market entitled “What if?”. Edited by Robert Cowley and published by Pan Books, it is a compilation of articles, written by different historians, concerning what might have happened if some of the great battles of history […]
Black Hawk Down
Hi all Some of you may have seen the film, Black Hawk Down. It’s about the American sojourn in Somalia during 1992, 1993. A stirring movie, like everything done by Ridley Scott, it nevertheless seriously mis-represents what happened when the special forces went in. And the implications are serious in the current context of a […]
Book Review: ‘Not Religion But Love’
Book Review: ‘Not Religion, but Love’, by Dave Andrews (Lion Publishing, 2001). Twenty-five years ago Walter Brueggemann published his classic ‘The Prophetic Imagination’ (Fortress Press, 1978), in which he said there are two ways to relate to the poor. They can be disempowered/ignored by religious or political regimes; or empowered by the word of the […]
When Peace Breaks Out
Bethel College history professor coauthors pacifist look at U.S. history Article by June Krehbiel, assistant director of News Service, Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas NORTH NEWTON, KAN.- War dominates United States history books, says Bethel College history professor James Juhnke, who for 30 years has wondered why those same books seldom include stories about peace. […]
Church Next? (Book Review)
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-028 (Book Review) CHURCH NEXT? by Alan Marr The most stimulating book I have read in recent months is “CHURCH NEXT – quantum changes in Christian ministry” by Eddie Gibbs and Ian Coffey.(IVP) Here is my summary of the main points. 1. “We are all fishing in the same pond and the […]
Hollywood Movie To Remember
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-042 (Film Review) A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE TO REMEMBER by Terry Mattingly No one was surprised when “A Walk to Remember” opened on Jan. 25th and drew flocks of teen-aged girls to the suburban super-cinemas that circle America’s biggest cities. This was, after all, a multi-hanky “chick flick” staring pop diva Mandy Moore. […]
Book Review: Pass The Salt: Biblical Integrity Today (Kameel Majdali)
Book Review: Pass the Salt: Biblical Integrity Today (Kameel Majdali), published by Sovereign World, 2000. Subtitled ‘How to Live a Life of Relevance without Compromise’, this excellent book on integrity for modern Christians is very timely. The Western press has made it their business to highlight the failings of high-profile Christians. Unfortunately followers of Jesus […]
Augustine’s Confessions
Romans wrote: : I’m looking to pickup this book for Christmas. Is there a preferred : translator, or are they all pretty equivalent? I don’t know if any one translation is “preferred,” but I can give you information about 3 that I’ve looked at and compared briefly with the original Latin at some points. First […]
God By Alexander Waugh
February 27, 2002 GOD By Alexander Waugh Review, £18.99; 350 pp ISBN 0 7472 7016 3 THE HEBREW GOD By Bernhard Lang Yale, £25; 260 pp ISBN 0 3000 9025 0 While other children clamoured for bedtime stories, Alexander Waugh was asking his father, Auberon, questions about God. The replies were unhelpful to a boy […]
Hope Against Darkness (Richard Rohr)
What is the darkness and what is the light? Richard Rohr, OFM “If the light inside you is, in fact, darkness, what darkness that will be” Matthew 6:23 I was taping a TV show in Budapest when the cameramen received the word of events in America. Everything stopped and just like here everything was refocused […]
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