Zeus
The History Book Club is offering a new work by Tom Stone called Zeus: A Journey Through Greece in the Footsteps of a God. I don’t know anything about the book though I’m curious if anybody else does....
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The author of Zeus, Tom Stone, kindly took the time to write me and gave me permission to reproduce here a portion of his book’s forward. It gave me the chills, and from this alone I would buy the...
View ArticleUndaunted Courage
I have been reading Stephen E. Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage, his account of the Lewis & Clark expedition. I had been thinking that he did not spend enough time on the wrongness of the notion that...
View Article[Un]Warranted Christian Belief
I love books like this. Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga, a philosopher Time magazine once called the “leading philosopher of God.” They go on for hundreds of pages. Christian philosophy...
View ArticleThe Truth War? (or, Which Truth Might That Be?)
How is this for a book? The Truth War…ooooooooh…aaaaahhhhhh. It even has a nasty old snake on the cover, a Pagan symbol if there ever was one. This should be our first warning about this book, in that...
View ArticleA TAPESTRY OF LIES
I am going to critique a review. Well, to put it more bluntly, I am going to tear it apart. The review in question, by Kate Kirkpatrick, appearing in Christianity Today’s September 2009 issue, is of a...
View ArticlePaganism in Speculative Fiction: A Case Study
I am a big fan of S.M. Stirling’s “Emberverse” series, which is part of the “Change” series (though I do not much care for the related Nantucket subset). There are (currently) six books recording the...
View ArticleA Review of Paxson’s Essential Ásatrú
This is a long overdue review of Diana Paxson’s Essential Ásatrú, a book mentioned by S.M. Stirling as a resource for his Emberverse series (previously reviewed here). Diana Paxson is both a Pagan and...
View ArticleThe Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
The Far Traveler is an enjoyable read, almost novel-like, and Brown has an easy way with words which have the effect of putting you in the scene. This is no dry, scholarly tome. You can tell that...
View ArticleBart D. Ehrman’s Forged – A Review
Bart D. Ehrman has struck again with his brilliant new book Forged: Writing in the Name of God – Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are (HarperOne, 2011), delivering a clear and concise...
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