If you want a critical [and reasonably academic] look at what happened and how to reclaim positive psychology for good [and for God] then this is a great place to start.
Category: Reviews
Book: Gunning for God: Why The New Atheists are Missing the Target, by John Lennox.
Because they are led by a mistrust of religion which has spilled over into distaste and then blind-prejudice, the New Atheist literature if filled with misquotations, misrepresentations and unsupported assertions, which Lennox exposes and dismantles with some relish
Book: A Better Story: God, Sex & Human Flourishing
Harrison manages to achieve these aims with great skill, combining serious academic rigour, with remarkably accessible language; while coupling orthodoxy with pastoral sensitivity.
Engaging with Pullman, Part Five: Pullman on Alienation and the Argument from Desire
That is why the gospel of Jesus – the King of Heaven – is the better story, than the Republic of Heaven that Pullman’s story is all about!
Engaging with Pullman, Part Four: Dust and the Signals of Transcendence
However, sadly, Pullman has not yet left behind the secular worldview to discover that the Christian worldview makes better sense of consciousness. Nevertheless, there is still a glimmer of hope!
Engaging with Pullman, Part Three: Pullman on God and the Church
let me suggest that while the story is new, the slander is not! Questions about the character and goodness of God go right back to the Garden of Eden. The first lie called into question God’s love and benevolent intentions towards the human race
Book: Come and Behold Him, Christmas Through Different Eyes
David J. Randall has produced a helpful little book for anyone who wants to scratch below the surface of the Christmas story
Engaging with Pullman, Part Two: Pullman and the Power of Stories
The driving story of His Dark Materials is a quest to kill God – the Authority – and liberate the world from the tyranny of the Church – the Magisterium. It finishes with the rallying cry that now the king of heaven is dead that we must build “the Republic of Heaven” on earth.
Book: Am I Just My Brain? by Sharon Dirckx
In this short book, Sharon Dirckx provides a very helpful introduction to some extremely big topics. As she points out in the introduction, how we answer the question ‘Am I just my brain?’ has implications for free will, robotics, ethics and religion, so the stakes are high.
Engaging with Pullman, Part One: Why I’ll be watching ‘His Dark Materials’ and so should you!
This is the sensational story that the BBC have spent some £50 million bringing to the screen. The first series, retelling the first book “Northern Lights”, will be watched by millions of people in this weekend prime time slot in the run up to Christmas. Some critics have dismissed the books as “atheism for kids”