As an expert in mathematics, including probability and chaos theory, Lennox analyses and explains the fine tuning of the physical forces and constants of the universe, and the information richness of the genetic code. These facts point to intelligent input
Mair helps us understand so clearly the struggles and contradictions at the heart of our culture’s relationship with truth
In conclusion, then, this is a great little book and should form part of an armoury of resources that will give Christians greater confidence in the reasonableness of their faith.
500 pages of unremitting present tense action and powerful description. I was taken with it and found it hard to put down, but ultimately it is frustrating.
BY SARAH ALLEN - Harari’s rejection of meaning offers no hope for this chaos, but unintentionally points us in the right direction. We humans desperately need meaning because we are cooperating and communicating persons made in the image of the personal three-in-one God. We need to know that our values of love and justice and our feelings of pain and compassion are not part of a lifeless algorithm, or a convenient myth, but have significance beyond our brain chemistry
Speak Up is a new resource from the Evangelical Alliance and the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship to equip and inspire Christians with confidence and knowledge of the current legal freedoms we have to share our faith. http://eauk.org/current-affairs/politics/speak-up.cfm “We have needed something like Speak Up for a long time. It is balanced, informative, clear, well-written, wise, biblical and …
Solas book editor GAVIN MATTHEWS talks to acclaimed Christian apologist ALISTER MCGRATH about his new book, Inventing the Universe. Tell us about Inventing the Universe. What is it about, why did you write it, and who is it for? I wrote it because I wanted to explain the kind of journey I made from being an atheist who thought …
Andrew Murray (not that one!) has written a book on Thomas Guthrie. You may remember that Guthrie’s “Ragged Schools” featured in last year’s conference, in David Robertson’s talk on Education and the Poor. Here is what Andrew says about his book: ‘A Mission of Mercy’ came out of a frustration that much of the Christian …
Reclaiming Reason by Richard Gamble carries the very appropriate subtitle Believers Think – Thinkers Believe. It is a concise and useful book that tackles five arguments for the existence of God along with five very common objections. Richard hails from Glasgow and has links with Solas CPC through the Solas Connect training course. He also …
“The Boy in the Dress” was an intriguing title for a children’s novel. I feared the worst when I saw it sitting in a children’s library and yes, it is indeed about cross dressing. It seems to be a very popular book, read by scores of children since its publication in 2008, and probably stocked …