Fans of Dan Brown’s bestseller will be pleased to know that The Da Vinci Code film is fairly faithful to the book. It’s a pity…
With over 40 million copies sold worldwide, translated into 44 languages, and a blockbuster film due out in mid-May, The Da Vinci Code has made…
Crossway Books, 2005. These are not good days for truth. Truth has taken a hammering for several centuries now, and the attacks seem to intensify…
David Wells is one of our more perceptive commentators on church and culture. In his newest book he looks at modernism, postmodernism, and the crisis in Evangelicalism. An excellent commentary on church trends.
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…
Basic Books, 2003. This volume very nicely brings together four broad themes into one focused discussion. The nature of radical Islam, the threat of terrorism,…
In 1984 the American social commentator Richard John Neuhaus wrote an incisive book entitled The Naked Public Square. In it he argued that in the…
The steady march of those who seek to undermine pro-family and pro-life values continues unabated. Various activist groups are making great headway in the face…
Regnery, 2003. It may be recalled that early on in the recent war in Iraq, an American soldier launched a grenade and small arms attack…
Broadman and Holman, 2003. Democracy is about balancing the needs and interests of the majority with those of the minority (or minorities). It is a…
Eerdmans, 2003. How have the forces of modernization and globalization impacted on the institutions of marriage and family? Is the decline of marriage in the…
The Melbourne Age’s regular anti-religion writer, Pamela Bone has issued another salvo against faith. Entitled “The most dangerous force in the world,” (Nov. 30), the…
A raft of new legislation is being passed throughout the Western world. These laws are called by various names, such as vilification or tolerance or…
Eerdmans, 2001. In the past few decades the advances in bio-technology and genetics have been astounding. The scientific and technical breakthroughs have far out-stripped our…
Multnomah, 2000. There may be as many non-believers who have heard of this book as believers, thanks to its phenomenal sales. In May this year…
Eerdmans, 2000. This book looks at the institutions of marriage and the family from a combination of perspectives: the social sciences, theology and ethics. The…
The first line of Carl F. H. Henry’s six-volume, 3,000 page work, God, Revelation and Authority says this: “No fact of contemporary Western life is…
Brian Houston Ministries, 1999 In this book the pastor of Hillsong Church in Sydney shares his concerns about money. He believes that Christians have a…
There exists an awful lot of conceptual confusion and definitional inexactitude concerning Christianity in general and fundamentalism in particular. Mind you, I’m speaking about the…
A popular teaching has been heard in the church over the last few decades which encourages Christians to believe they should be rich and prosperous.…