Summer Reading Short Reviews

One of the joys of reading is being able to bounce around and read lots of different things as the fancy takes me. Here, in no particular order, are a few thoughts on a few of the books I’ve read so far this summer. The Lost Virtue of Happiness: J.P. Moreland and Klaus Issler. I think this is an important, even an essential book. In combination with a lecture by Dr Moreland that I heard this summer (and wrote...

Capsule Reviews: Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society; Tolkien’s The Silmarillion

Here are short reviews of two interesting books I’ve read recently. Enjoy!...

NT Wright Interview about Heaven

I happened across a wonderful interview that Time Magazine did just recently with Bishop NT Wright. Wright, one of the foremost theologians and biblical scholars of our time (and an excellent writer for both academic and popular audiences) discusses the misconception that most Christians have about heaven.   And, I’d add, most non-Christians. Before I was a Christian, I thought that what Christians...

Review: “The Moral Instinct”

An article appeared in the New York Times recently called “The Moral Instinct.” The tagline is “Evolution has endowed us with ethical impulses. Do we know what to do with them?” The author, Steven Pinker, is a professor of philosophy; in the article he dissects the concept of morality, where it comes from, and what we ought to do about it, especially in a culture with competing ideas of what...

DVD Review – Mysteries of the Bible Collection

It’s not an easy task to produce a program on the Bible that will appeal equally to skeptics and believers. The A&E series The Mysteries of the Bible takes a shot at the project, giving us twenty-two episodes exploring the events described in the Bible and drawing on a variety of points of view about the material. How successful is it? I’d say that The Mysteries of the Bible is not terribly...