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Most churches, regardless of denomination, meander along aware that they are failing in one respect or another, but unable to address it. Largely, this is because the church, to protect the offering plate, has fostered dependence rather than independence as the relationship model with members. The minister(s) are expected to be and do everything, whether [...]
Christian fiction now abounds in ways unexpected even a few years ago. Most of it, however, is drippy with sentimentality and banal in its either seeming ignorance or its seeming refusal to acknowledge the existence of evil. Secular treatment of religious themes is often on the other extreme: full of characterizations of all persons holding [...]
Because of the controversy among evangelicals regarding the recently released movie, The Golden Compass, and the underlying trilogy of novels by Philip Pullman upon which the movie is based, it seemed logical to see it and review it. As it turns out, the controversy was unnecessary. Golden Compass gets a “B” rating at best, and [...]
Based upon the recommendation I saw in World Magazine, I obtained and read a novel by Randy Singer entitled False Witness. For a summer novel, it was not a burden to read but I could not give it high marks. It is a paperback you can buy about anywhere. I got mine online. The novel [...]
The U.S. government and all people of goodwill have struggled to understand the culture of the Middle East, the people of the Middle East and especially the violence erupting in and from the Middle East. A new book may assist in developing an understanding of the Middle East. Michael B. Oren is the author of [...]
I read Victor J. Stenger’s book, God, the Failed Hypothesis, with anticipation. Stenger is a retired professor of physics and philosophy. I thought, “Finally, an atheist with something credible to say.” Boy, his book title says it all. It sure was — I mean, Stenger’s book itself is a failed hypothesis. Stenger has nothing new [...]
I wanted to read Brigitte Gabriel’s book, Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America, because of a listing I saw in World Magazine that led me to believe it might be similar to the Diary of Anne Frank. Ms. Gabriel, a journalist turned activist, was a teenager who grew up in a [...]
At Evangelical Outpost, they have been considering books that they would recommend to college-age students. I have two college-age children; indeed, they are both young men and deserve to be referenced as such by me. I have encouraged them to read broadly, read for fun, but read to survive, as well. We live in a [...]
I will be away from the blog for a long weekend. Norma and I leave in about an hour to attend a Hull family reunion in Branson, Missouri. I have four siblings and two step-siblings, so that’s seven of us, plus kids and grandkids. It has become a large family. My biggest challenge at these events [...]
Francis Schaeffer I mentioned Francis Schaeffer’s The Church at the End of the 20th Century a few days ago (see “What Will the Church Be Like 30 Years from 1970?”). Schaeffer is one of the great Christian philosopher-theologians of the preceding century. I’m reading the aforementioned 1970 book for the first time, and I promised [...]
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