But this is not a storyline for a new Narnia book; the attack on Narnia is happening in the real world. Philip Pullman is the author ofHis Dark Materials, a bestselling fantasy trilogy for children that in sales and popularity ranks just behind theHarry Potterseries. This year, the Britis...
Recently, I saw a book for sale in the local library. The title wasGod’s Plan for Church Leadership. I don’t recall the author’s name, nor did I think any more about it until the title came back to me while driving home. I haven’t read the book, but apparently the author wa...
The story he told in that yearbook didn’t merely recount a sexual encounter, it did so in a manner degrading to the young woman in question. This isn’t merely the excess of a boy enjoying his own life; it’s the cruelty of a young man for whom at least a part of that joy ...
In the vein of seeing this in religious terms, I’m looking forward to John McWhorter’s upcoming book, where he promises to explore the idea of wokeism as a new cult, religion, or something of the like (it hasn’t been published yet, but his thoughts on the subject to date seem co...
Labour is never the answer, kids November 22, 2015 by James I’m reading Owen Jones’s book The Establishment at the moment. It’s brilliant, it’s horrifying, and my radical lefty anti-authoritarian fury is doing my blood pressure no favours. The depths to which power is entrenched amo...
It’s the last book in the Narnia series. Joe Schmid: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So, here’s the quote, “Then I fell at his feet…” So we’re talking about Aslan here. “So, then I fell at his feet and thought, surely this is the hour of death, for the lion who is worthy of...
Peel back the layers of abstinence-only or marriage-centered or anti-homosexual sex education and you find religion.“Don’t say gay” laws, laws denying trans kids medical care, school-library book bans and even efforts to suppress the teaching of inconvenient historical facts— motivated by re...
But I saw it in the bookstore at Luton airport, and couldn’t resist buying it for Enrico – and myself. We both read through it quickly, enjoying Dawkins’ elegant prose and wry wit brought to bear on some of our favorite targets. ...
Unless Dawkins actually repudiates his book, he is NOT agnostic! In The God Delusion, Dawkins provides a seven point scale for scoring belief in God. Here it is: http://bigthink.com/think-tank/atheism-easter-atheister Richard Dawkins’ Belief Scale Scoring Rubric ...
Dr. Pilbeam wrote a review of Richard Leakey's bookOriginsin the journalAmerican Scientist: “...perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theor...