While I enjoyed reading Dan Brown’s The Davinci Code and applaud Brown’s work as something imaginative, I do think that we can attribute his success much to the expense of Catholics, whose Christ-derived message of love for ones enemies was thoroughly exploited in the process. After all, you wouldn’t see a contemporary author take such fact-twisting liberties (even in [...]
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“The Unlikely Disciple” book review – from a Liberty student
I entered reading Kevin Roose’s book with great enthusiasm. Having just sold back a few of my college textbooks to the new Liberty University books store, I was making a quick scan of the merchandise and stumbled upon Roose’s book. The cover features a glossed over photo of the undistinguishable Roose holding out a copy [...]
Thoughts on Phillip Yancey’s “What’s So Amazing About Grace?”
I had been given Phillip Yancey’s “What’s so Amazing About Grace?” as a Christmas gift two years ago, and had completely forgotten about it up until the following Christmas. Finishing it a while back, I have since revered it as the best Christmas gift I have ever gotten (topping GameBoy of 1999); the book certainly [...]
The gunslinger and the man in black
One of the books I’ve had the privilege of reading this year was Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger.” I know that Stephen King’s work isn’t exactly respectable literature; after all, this was the guy that called himself the literary equivalent of “a Big Mac and fries.” But regardless, I did previously read [...]
