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26 Jan 2015

The Executed God

The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Mark Lewis Taylor, Fortress Press, 2001, 208 pp. WN: “Is it a contradiction that Christians pray and adore their imprisoned and executed God while supporting or tolerating the execution and imprisonment of so many today?... Is there a contradiction when in 2001…

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25 Jan 2015

Rogue State

A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower, William Blum, Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine, 2000, 308 pp. A former Canadian missionary colleague, Lloyd Billingsley, has published numerous books since his new-found faith in Americana, and adoption of the United States as his actual and spiritual homeland. His books have catchy…

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24 Jan 2015

The 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 review copy of the first book, and to Eerdmans for a review copy of the second. I learned of the first publication and that reviewed below in following through on the Canadian…

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22 Apr 2014

Captain 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, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003, 392 pp.; The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada, Marci McDonald, Random House Canada, 2010, 419 pp. Most of us would rather not know the…

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21 Apr 2014

Blowback

The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, Chalmers Johnson, New York: Henry Holt, 2000, 268 pp. It is the human condition that one shoots the messenger when the message is unliked. When links between smoking and cancer were first published in newspapers, subscriptions by smokers were cancelled to the newspapers!…

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