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📄 PDFJesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin…
📄 PDFCaptain America; The Armageddon Factor (Two Reviews Together)
Captain America and the Crusade Against Evil: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism, Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence,…
📄 PDFCovenant of Peace
The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics, Willard M. Swartley, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006 WN: This…
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
Book Review of The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th…
Love on a human scale: The Gospel according to Ivan Illich – Review by Marcus Peter Rempel
Every now and then a book comes into my life that puts me in a happy dilemma: I…
📄 PDFThe Genealogy of Violence
The Genealogy of Violence: Reflections on Creation, Freedom, and Evil, Charles K. Bellinger, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001,…
The Choice: Embrace The Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
WN: An astounding book; woman; story–and full of life lessons. There are many more videos online and another…
I Was a Catholic Zionist: A Biblical Challenge to Tribalism and Idolatry
WN: This review is from THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM Review: “I Was a Catholic Zionist“–An Eloquent Exploration…
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America
Of the extraordinarily valuable and informative works for which Mr. Valentine is responsible, his latest, CIA As Organized…
📄 PDFGOD IS NOT GREAT: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens, Toronto: Emblem Editions, 2008, 307 pp. WN: With such a claim in the title, Hitchins’ treatise…
📄 PDFDancing With Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain,
Book Review of Dancing With Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging…
📄 PDFChristianity and Pluralism
Book Review of Christianity and Pluralism, Ron Dart and J. I. Packer, Lexham Press, 2019; 70 pages excerpt:…
The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy
Book review of The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy, Colleen Carroll, Chicago: Loyola Press,…
Book Review of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World
Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, Jean Bethke Elshtain, New York:…
Writing Straight with Crooked Lines: A Memoir
Orbis Books, 2020, by Jim Forest Reviewed by Ron Dart I first met Jim Forest in the mid-1980s…
Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act July 22, 2020 Bats…
Book Review of Dispelling The Clouds
Book Review of Dispelling The Clouds by Wilma Derksen [NOTE: Please click on highlighted title above to be…
📄 PDFBook Review of Christianity and Pluralism, Ron Dart and J. I. Packer, Lexham Press, 2019; 70 pages
Book Review of Christianity and Pluralism, Ron Dart and J. I. Packer, Lexham Press, 2019; 70 pages WN:…
Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance With The Feminine
Book Review of Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance With The Feminine, Wood Lake Publishing, 2018, Susan McCaslin &…
Fatal Discord Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
Book Review of: Fatal Discord Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind WN: My friend Ron…
Early Christian Readings of Genesis One
Early Christian Readings of Genesis One: Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation, Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2018; author Craig…
📄 PDFThe Nonviolent Atonement
Book Review of: The Nonviolent Atonement, J. Denny Weaver, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001/2011. 246 pages…
📄 PDFJustice That Restores, Charles W. Colson, Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2001. 172 pages
WN: Charles Colson’s book seems so out of place in the Age of Trump. Colson was of course…
Compulsory Compassion
A Critique of Restorative Justice, Annalise Acorn, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004, 207 pages WN: A Christian acquaintance and…
They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change with Author John Dear
Book Review of: They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change, John…
📄 PDFDancing With Elephants
Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain (2017), Jarem Sawatsky, Winnipeg: Red…
Kenotic Ecclesiology: Select Writings of Donald M. Mackinnon
John C. McDowell, Scott A. Kirkland, Ashley John Moyse, (editors), Rowan Williams (Foreword), Fortress Press, 2016 by Ron…
White Gulls & Wild Birds
Essays on C.S. Lewis, Inklings and Friends & Thomas Merton, edited by Ron Dart, Abbotsford: St. Macrina Press;…
📄 PDFA Gentler God: Breaking Free of the Almighty in the Company of the Human Jesus
Breaking free of the Almighty in the company of the human Jesus, Menangle: Albatross Books, Douglas Frank, 2010;…
📄 PDFGratitude Books
One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to LIVE FULLY Right Where You Are, Ann Voskamp, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010,…
📄 PDFChasing the Scream
The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, Johann Hari, New York: Bloomsbury, 2015, 389 pp.…
📄 PDFA Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross
The Cruciform Self, Brian Gregor, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013, 261 pp. From the back cover:…
📄 PDFOn Being Human
Sexual Orientation and the Image of God, C. Norman Kraus, Eugene: Cascade Books, 2011, 113 pages A brief…
📄 PDFLament For a Nation: Then and Now
Lament For a Nation: Then and Now, Ron Dart, New York: American Anglican Press, 2015; 38 pp. This is…
📄 PDFAtheist Delusions
The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, David Bentley Hart, New Haven & London: Yale Divinity Press, 2009,…
📄 PDFA Farewell to Mars
An Evangelical Pastor’s Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace, Brian Zahnd, Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2014,…
📄 PDFThe Church’s Peace Witness
The Church’s Peace Witness, edited by Marlin E. Miller & Barbara Nelson Gingerich, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994, 228…
The Fall of the Prison
Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition, Lee Griffith, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1993. 258pp. WN: This is a profound…
📄 PDFViolence, Hospitality, and the Cross
Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition, Hans Boersma, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004, 288 pages. WN: Both in dialogue and…
📄 PDFThe Executed God
The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Mark Lewis Taylor, Fortress Press, 2001, 208 pp. excerpts: “Is…
📄 PDFThe Biblical Revelation of the Cross
A Bible Study of the Atonement of Jesus Christ – the Righteous Servant, Norman McIlwain, Oak Wood Publishing…
📄 PDFSolving Hell
A Mystery Story, by Chris Friesen, A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary (Fresno,…
📄 PDFRogue State
A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower, William Blum, Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine, 2000, 308 pp. A…
📄 PDFReason, Faith, and Revolution
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate, Terry Eagleton, New Haven and London: Yale University Press,…
📄 PDFThe War on Terrorism and the Terror of God
Lee Griffith, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002, 399 pp. “What would this mean if it were true that we…
📄 PDFThe Myth of Religious Violence and Migrations of the Holy
The Myth of Religious Violence and Migrations of the Holy My thanks to Oxford University Press for a…
📄 PDFJust War Against Terror
The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, Jean Bethke Elshtain, New York: Basic Books, 2003, 240…
📄 PDFFrancis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America
Barry Hankins, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008, 272 pp. An excerpt: Barry Hankins allows irenically that Schaeffer’s “arguments have…
📄 PDF“Farewell, Rob Bell”
A Biblical Response to Love Wins, Larry Dixon, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011, 70 pp. This very sad,…
📄 PDFChristian Anarchy
Jesus’ Primacy over the Powers, Vernard Eller, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987. Jacques Ellul first introduced me to this…
📄 PDFBloomfield Avenue
A Jewish-Catholic Jersey Girl’s Spiritual Journey, Linda Mercadante, Cambridge, Massachussets: Cowley Publications, 2006; 211 pages Linda was a…
📄 PDFBlowback
The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, Chalmers Johnson, New York: Henry Holt, 2000, 268 pp. It is…
📄 PDFAgainst The Death Penalty
Christian and Secular Arguments Against Capital Punishment, Gardner C. Hanks, Herald Press, 1997; 208 pages After this review…
Beyond Retribution
A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime, and Punishment,Christopher D. Marshall, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001, 342…
📄 PDFThe Death Penalty
An Historical and Theological Survey, James J. Megivern, New York/Mahwah, N. J.: Paulist Press 1997, 641 pages. An…
No Future Without Forgiveness
WN: Desmond Mpilo Tutu, New York: Doubleday, 1999, 294 pp. I wrote this review several years ago. Some…
📄 PDFThe Lost World of Genesis One
Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate, John H. Walton, Downer’s Grove: IVP Academic, 191 pp. An excerpt: For…
God’s Just Vengeance
Crime, violence and the rhetoric of salvation, Timothy Gorringe, Cambridge University Press, 1996, 280 pages An excerpt: “This…
Compassionate Justice
An Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Two Gospel Parables on Law, Crime, and Restorative Justice, Christopher D. Marshall, Eugene Oregon:…