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.
Category: Book Reviews
Yuval Noah Harari’s ‘Sapiens’ and ‘Homo Deus’ – a depressing view of our Humanity
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 – The Law and Your Gospel Freedoms
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 …
Challenging the Dominant Narrative
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 …
A Mission of Mercy – book
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 – book
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 | David Walliams
“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 …
The Book That Made Your World
The Book That Made Your World: How The Bible Created The Soul of Western Civilization by Vishal Mangalwadi At first sight, the bold and intriguing title immediately caught my attention. Written by Vishal Mangalwadi (VM), a native of India, I was interested to read an eastern perspective on the Bible and Western thought. The …
Why I Am Not An Atheist
Eleven different people travelled on eleven diverse paths to faith in Jesus Christ, and this book is the point where they meet. In Why I Am Not An Atheist, these travellers relate their stories and the reasons why they believe. What do a CEO, a psychiatrist, a journalist and a missionary have in common? This …
Outreach with a frothy moustache?
This review originally printed in the Evangelicals Now newspaper – September 2013 (see http://www.e-n.org.uk/) QUENCH Café culture evangelism By David Robertson SOLAS – Centre for Public Christianity 73 pages. This little book comes from SOLAS, the Centre for Public Christianity in Dundee (www.solas-cpc.org). The aim of its author, David Robertson, who is the director of the …