The life and ministry of Alister McGrath is a fascinating and inspiring one: We are meant to encourage one another, and reading biographies and autobiographies…
HarperOne, 2009. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) The subject of this book seems rather strange today. That is because the concept of heresy only…
SPCK, 2007. The God Delusion by veteran theophobe Richard Dawkins has caused no small stir since being released late last year. It was a wild…
Blackwell, 2005. If T.H. Huxley was “Darwin’s bulldog” just over a century ago, surely Richard Dawkins would be Darwin’s pit bull terrier today. A leading…
Many former God-haters have either converted or passed on: There is an old religious joke about a few quotations graffitied on a bathroom wall. The…
So who am I reading a lot of? Five years ago I posted an article listing all the authors I happen to have ten or…
On the falling star of the new atheism: The new atheists were all the rage just a few short decades ago. They now seem to…
On the conversion of C. S. Lewis: Anyone who has read the account of Lewis’ conversion in Surprised By Joy (HBJ, 1955) will know that…
What we must know about ‘tolerance’: Tolerance used to be understood to mean respectfully disagreeing with others. It implied the fact that two people differed…
Some great assessments of the shortcomings of atheism: While we can seek to take atheists seriously (after all, some of my readers were former atheists,…
The new and now complete three-volume biography of C. S. Lewis is a must read: OK, we are only a few days away from Christmas…
Yes heresy is real and it must be resisted: Because there is such a thing as truth, there is such a thing as error. Because…
You can never get enough of Jim Packer: There are some folks you just cannot get enough of. If they are authors, you always want…
What to read on these hugely important topics: One advantage of having a large library is that putting together bibliographies can become somewhat easy. That…
A remarkable evangelical teacher and theologian has just passed away: One of the greatest and most influential evangelical leaders of our time has just passed…
Here are a number of important books dealing with suffering, pain and evil and how we might respond: We all suffer in various ways, so…
The Christian needs both brains and the Spirit to rightly understand Scripture: All Christians believe that God speaks to us through the Bible – not…
Some thoughts on the great J. R. R. Tolkien and his Christian impact: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was many things: an Oxford don, a poet,…
Here are 20 new books that you all should be aware of: My title should make it clear that at least three groups of people…
How does Christianity differ from all the other world religions? Although wildly ambitious and seemingly foolish to write on such a massive topic, with billions…