My first question -- does anyone want me to do more of these? The book itself could be good for a dozen entries at least, though some of them would be of minimal interest (does anyone really want to know just how many fascist organizations were in 1930's India?), but talking about one topic could get tiresome ( Read more... )

Namely Alister McGrath, a former atheist and scientist (well, still a scientist) who came to Christ and has since become what seems to be one of the most intelligent and literate Christian theologians and apologists on the planet ( Read more... )

Well, I've finished reading Stephen Prothero's book Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- and Doesn't. Let me say first of all that it is a very good book. It covers the current sorry state of knowledge in American concerning religion (Chapter One is bluntly titled 'A Nation of Religious Illiterates'). Basically, as Prothero ( Read more... )

Okay, the title's a trifle silly, but while my original thought was that TinT II would be better than the first, it isn't. It's no worse, mind, but that's like saying that a bullet in the chest is no worse than three knife wounds to the stomach ( Read more... )

A brief review of a book that might as well be subtitled, "You don't HAVE to be wacky paranoid just because you're an evangelical -- but nothing's stopping you ( Read more... )