Like most sequels, Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana doesn’t quite match the original, but it’s still an interesting read.
Yeshua is now 30, and in first person the book takes him through four situations: he is accused of defiling a virgin, his baptism at the hands of John the Baptizer, his 40-day fast and [...]
One of America’s greatest conservative minds has been called home. ABC News reports that William F. Buckley has died at 82. At this point the cause of death has not been released, but it was known he had emphysema.
“For people of my generation, Bill Buckley was pretty much the first intelligent, witty, well-educated conservative [...]
Louder than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism is Jenny McCarthy’s retelling of her struggles with her son Evan, now 5 years old. It is a fast read, 202 pages in larger type.
The story of Evan is interesting, but the author’s own character development is the real reason to read the book. She [...]
Amity Shlaes evokes Georges Santayana in her book, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.
The Forgotten Man is a retelling of the years before World War II, the stock market crash of 1929 and the government expansion that followed it. By involving itself more and more into private business, the federal government [...]
God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life by Gene Edward Veith, Jr. is a wonderful book. It is easy to read and shows that the Christian teaching of vocation can answer today’s questions about our purpose in life.
It is almost imperative that I write a book report post and then follow-up with [...]
The Christian Post reports that Esquire Editor-at-Large A.J. Jacobs has written a new book, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.
Neither the Post nor the Amazon.com information tell outright whether A.J. Jacobs’ “Bible” is merely the Old Testament or both the Old and New Testaments. [...]
Noted Christian apologist John Warwick Montgomery has been on KFUO’s Issues, Etc. show ten times. I picked up one of his books, The Quest for Noah’s Ark, from our library system.
Montgomery’s book can be split into three: the physics behind an ark as described in Genesis 6:14-16, the writings of early explorers and church [...]
The Pilgrim’s Regress by C.S. Lewis is a strange book.
Regress is an allegorical journey of John, from atheism to idealism to pantheism to theism to Christianity. Lewis loosely illustrates his coming to the Christian faith in this manner, and he uses his experience in each of these theologies to describe what they are like. [...]
