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Book Review – Poverty: A History
From: Danny Yee Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews,rec.arts.books.reviews,soc.history.medieval,alt.poverty Subject: Book Review – Poverty: A History An HTML version of this book review can be found at http://dannyreviews.com/h/Poverty.html along with more than five hundred other reviews. TITLE: Poverty – A History AUTHOR: Bronislaw Geremek – translated from the Polish by Agnieszka Kolakowska PUBLISHER: Blackwell 1994 SUBJECTS: social history, medieval […]
Liberated Christians Website
Review: Liberated Christians Website (http://www.libchrist.com/). Warning: this article and the website it’s about is dangerous, and I suspect many visit it for prurient purposes. Be honest about that, eh? My critique is at the foot of this long summary-article. Briefly: whilst ultra-conservative notions of sex can inculcate a lot of unnecessary guilt, a too-permissive […]
The Unconscious Civilization
BOOK REVIEW: John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization, Penguin, 1997. I remember as a graduate student reading Fullbright’s ‘The Arrogance of Power’ and saying ‘Yes, yes’ aloud right through the book. I’ve been doing that again (mostly) with this one. You can add the name John Ralston Saul to those of Noam Chomsky, Ivan Illich, […]
Book Review: The Templar Revelation
Psst!!! Calling all conspiracy theorists: what are the connections between the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, the Shroud of Turin, the Priory of Sion, the Cathars, the Knights Templar, John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, Leonardo da Vinci, Jesus, the St. Clairs, the Isis Cult, and the Holy Grail? A bunch of books with titles like In His […]
The Tablet And Persecution Of Christians
From: (Steven Carr) Newsgroups: uk.religion.christian Subject: The Tablet and Persecution of Christians Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 09:43:28 GMT The Tablet, a Catholic weekly, has an interesting review of ‘The Easter Story-Keepers’, a cartoon targeted at children and ‘Crossing Rome’ with presenter Paul Heiney. ‘devout parents may have encouraged their children to watch The Easter […]
Monty Python’s "Life Of Brian" And Nt Studies
MONTY PYTHON’S "LIFE OF BRIAN": ESSENTIAL FOR NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES? Edward Pothier August 1999 This year (1999) is the twentieth anniversary of the premiere of the comedy MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN (August 1979). This movie, by the British comedy troupe known as Monty Python, is supposed to be excerpts from the life of Brian […]
Review: "How To Be A Man"
Duffy & Snellgrove, 1998. O.K. Aussie blokes, if you wanna book about Being a (Modern) Man you can get in any ABC shop, is replete with expletives, assumes you’re oversexed, single and young, gives you valuable information on how to defend yourself in pub brawls, and has little or nothing to say about the modern […]
Give It Up…
If you have even an ounce of concern for the Church of Jesus Christ in the new millennium, I would like to recommend a book to you by Leonard Sweet. In the second of a trilogy of books he is writing in 1999, he is taking a bold, significant and creative look into the future […]
Review Of ‘Christi-Anarchy’
Dear Rowland here is a book review you may like to use in your website or other publications, regards, Mark Young Struggles of an inclusive evangelical – a review of Dave Andrews’ book Christi-Anarchy (Lion Publishing, Oxford, 1999) The late Anglican Bishop Ralph Wicks used to say in the midst of his three hour Good […]
Film Review: The Apostle
I saw the move “The Apostle” starring Robert Duvall last night. Robert Duvall plays a minister in a small southern US church (the kind where “sin” is a word with 2 syllables). He is a popular and effective minister, but his home and personal life is far from perfect. Eventually he finds himself backed into […]
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