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Book Review: Are We Living in the End Times? By Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
BOOK DESCRIPTION (FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK) 27 PERCENT OF THE BIBLE IS DEVOTED TO PROPHECY. But most of us don’t focus 27 percent of our personal Bible study on prophecy. Why? We’re confused. Or intimidated. Or both. This book takes away the mystery ~ and the intimidation. From the creators of the Left Behind series ~ Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins ~ comes a truly astonishing book. User~friendly for the layperson. Remarkably complete for the scholar. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Tim LaHaye, who conceived the Left Behind series, is a renowned prophecy scholar, minister and educator. He has written over 50 nonfiction works that have been published in…
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Religious Civility, Where Has It Gone?
It’s been a couple of days since Resurrection Sunday (Easter to some) and I’m finally in a place where I can write this post without getting teary~eyed… On Sunday morning, I woke up and checked up on all my people like I normally do. I sent out “Happy Resurrection Sunday” messages to a few friends and family and then went on about my day. Later that afternoon, I checked a couple of my usual online haunts (Facebook, Friendfeed and Twitter) to see what people were up to and was shocked at the level of meanness that people were showing towards those who observe Easter/Resurrection Sunday. Out of respect and love…
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Book Review: The Gospel According to Lost by Chris Seay
To say that Lost is a phenomenon would be an understatement. Over the last 6 seasons, I’ve watched and listened as viewers have followed the trials of their favorite island castaways and with the final season just beginning, it seemed appropriate for me to review The Gospel According to Lost by Chris Seay. As many viewers are aware, Lost is more than a story about a group of people who get stranded on an island, it’s a multi~layered story that explores fate, reason, faith, guilt, salvation and a host of other philosophical and religious tenents. And it’s within this framework that Seay seeks to explore the relationship between the television…
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Book Review: Broken Angel by Sigmund Brouwer
Broken Angel is set in the future where the United States has been divided in 2: the United States, a secular nation, and Appalachia, a land run by religious fundamentalists. In Appalachia, reading is a crime, citizens are drugged and those who break the laws are sent to slave labor camps. At the center of the novel is Caitlyn, a deformed young woman, who is being pursued by bounty hunters, who want her dead or alive. The reason for the pursuit is left unknown to both Caitlyn and the reader until the end of the novel, which adds to the suspense. Along the way, Caitlyn meets two traveling companions who…
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Sometimes a Fly is Just a Fly
I remember many years ago during my undergraduate studies I was taking a religion course with a wonderful instructor who had a pretty good knowledge of various religious backgrounds. During the course of the class, he discovered that I had been raised Church of God in Christ and, for whatever reason, this amused him greatly. So whenever something weird happened in class, he would look pointedly at me and say “It’s the devil.” One day during class, there was a fly buzzing around and being generally disruptive as flies tend to do. The fly made it’s way over to where I was sitting and I swatted at the fly unusually…
