Tagged: Books

Jesus is a girl?

One of the most thought provoking writers today is Ted Dekker. If you have never heard of him – you should. When C.S. Lewis said we didn’t need more Christian writers, we need more writers who are Christians, I think he had someone like Dekker...

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The God Delusion

UPDATE: Today (09/28), Al Mohler wrote a review of the book, and dedicated his daily radio show to the topic. Richard Dawkins, evolutionary apologist, has a new book out entitled The God Delusion.  Though I have not read it yet, one of our commenters provided...

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Considering How Easy it is To Revise History

Crank science and history are interesting, especially when the author may actually be right.  Such is the case with Anatoly Fomenko’s series of books (first 2 of 7 published in English) entitled History:  Fiction or Science?  (Amazon link).  Fomenko, a renowned mathemetician, has spent years...

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How feminized education harms boys

Christina Hoff-Sommers’ 2001 book The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, the second of her books criticizing radical feminism, really introduced the idea that modern public education is failing boys, misdiagnosing them as learning disabled when really, they were just...

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Who Abolished Slavery?

US News had a nice article on the history of abolition, entitled Who ended the slave trade?  In it, the author makes some great observations that deal with our liberal, revisionists understandings of slavery, it’s origins, and it’s abolition.  And the whole string of conversation...

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GOP goes Buck Wild

In his book, Buck Wild: How Republicans Broke the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government, Cato Institute scholar Stephen Slivinski details how the former home of fiscal conservatism has become a bastion for big spending and big government. Far from being yet another...

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Unrepentant “Believers”?

Jesus Creed has posted the content of Chapter 5 of Jim Elliff’s Wasted Faith, and I found the text of it both convicting and instructive.  This subject is often referred to in evangelical circles as making sure you have "saving faith", not just some other...

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More P.I.G. Goodness

In a couple of weeks, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design will be released.  I love the fact that the series is called the P.I.G. series, and they have a little pig on the cover.  It should be good.  Also interesting is...

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