Tag Archives: Book Review

A Fiction Book Signed By One of Its Characters

I’ve got something like a couple dozen books signed by their authors, but I never thought I’d own a fiction book signed by one of its characters! Cherri Allen, my parents’ former next-door neighbor and the owner of a marvelous bird-and-garden shop in my hometown of Auburn, Michigan, won an auction to have her name …

October 22, 2011 – 7:21 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Books in Review: The Truth of the Soul of the Modern World

Dual Book Review The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization by Vishal Mangalwadi Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart     One of the New Atheists’ more childish conceits is that of secularism’s moral superiority over all that has come …

September 20, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Religions, The Faith | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

The Materialist As “A Kind of Childishly Complacent Fundamentalist”

I’m reading David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies. I’ll post a review of it before long, but I suggest you not waste time waiting for me to do that. This is one of the best books I’ve read in years. Here’s a taste of it, and a topic for …

September 4, 2011 – 1:21 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Book Review: A Queer Thing Happened To America

Book Review A Queer Thing Happened to America: And What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been by Michael L. Brown. Let’s get straight to the point. Michael Brown has written a lengthy book on seamy practices in the “gay rights” movement. That means he must be (a) a raving homophobic fundamentalist, (b) an important contributor …

September 1, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (26)

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Book Review It has earned prestigious awards and been reviewed a thousand times already, but I’ll add my voice to it anyway. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is a magnificent life story, and Laura Hillenbrand is a magnificent story-teller. (I couldn’t synopsize the book any better than Mike Fleming, …

August 28, 2011 – 7:18 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (3)

“God Behaving Badly” by David T. Lamb

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series God and Genocide

Book Review God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist? by David T. Lamb “How does one reconcile the loving God of the Old Testament with the harsh God of the New Testament?” Say what? You read it right. That’s exactly how David Lamb opens God Behaving Badly. A few …

July 24, 2011 – 8:19 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Bible, Ethics | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (9)

“No Argument For God” by John Wilkinson

Book Review John Wilkinson believes strongly in reason and in argument in the pursuit of spiritual truth. He employs both, at length, to deny the usefulness of reason and argument in the pursuit of spiritual truth. His book is titled No Argument for God: Going Beyond Reason in Conversations About Faith, and its central thesis goes …

March 11, 2011 – 9:50 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, Thinking Christianly | Tagged | Comments (70)

“A Healthy Debate”

Just posted at BreakPoint: my review of God and Evolution, edited by Jay W. Richards. I begin with: “Christians don’t think. They get all their beliefs handed to them, and they’ve been taught never to ask questions.” Check it out!

March 9, 2011 – 12:57 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , | Comments (33)