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BOOK REVIEW: ‘WHY GOD WON’T GO AWAY’

By Malgwyn | March 28, 2011

Says, Dr. Stephen Hayes, ‘Professor Alistair McGrath is something of a modern day C S Lewis. A prominent Anglican Christian writer formerly based at the University of Oxford [Ed: now London], like Lewis (who took on the anti-Christian intellectuals of his day such as George Bernard Shaw and J B S Haldane), he [...]

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Junkie Meets Jesus in A Trash Can

By Malgwyn | January 14, 2011

Coming to Richard Dawkins, here is another ‘Change of Heart’ story - all due to exposure to Christianity. Colin Garnett grew up in Stockport, South Manchester, in a tough working-class culture. Teenage involvement with alcohol, amphetamines and violence led to an adult heroin addiction which saw him doing time in twenty-seven prisons! But in 1993 in [...]

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Review of ‘The Grand Design’ by Stephen Hawking

By Malgwyn | October 18, 2010

Following the publishing of Stephen Hawking’s new book, The Grand Design, The Guardian took a poll from its readers who said 62.5% believed God was responsible for the creation of the universe, and not natural law as Hawking proposes. Hawking’s first book, The Brief History of Time, was a huge success but described. It was [...]

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Review: ‘The Loser Letters’ by Mary Eberstadt

By Malgwyn | October 15, 2010

In earlier post I thought that The Loser Letters: ‘A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism‘ by Mary Eberstadt looks a good read. I was not disappointed - I couldn’t put it down. This is about atheism V belief - serious stuff couched in the witty and comical. It is as the Product Description [...]

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62.5% Still Say God Created The Universe!

By Malgwyn | September 24, 2010

There is nothing like something controversial for selling books, especially on science and origins. The promotion of Stephen Hawking’s book, The Grand Design, was given higher than usual profile with reviewers and reporters reporting that Hawking had reversed his original view that God might be responsible for the creation of the universe. He now says physics [...]

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A Review Of ‘A Rage Against God’ by Peter Hitchens

By Malgwyn | September 23, 2010

Atheist V Christian debates have included Christopher Hitchens (Atheist) and Douglas Wilson (Christian). Their series of six encounters was reported by Christianity Today. Most may know that Christopher Hitchens has a brother, Peter Hitchens who writes for the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Peter chose to write on his brother and his book in [...]

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10 Babies by 10 Mothers To Cost UK Taxpayers £1.5

By Malgwyn | September 21, 2010

10 Babies by 10 Mothers going To Cost Taxpayers £1.5m. The figure was updated the following day to ‘15 children by 14 women’ by one ‘feckless father.’
News stories galore have told of single mothers getting the obligatory council house and eye watering handouts. Men get their ‘oats’ and single parents get the ‘right’ to be [...]

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Luther’s Decade Commemorations

By Malgwyn | August 10, 2010

Reading Bolling’s book on Romans  reminds me of how reading Romans did change one man, and how that altered the religious and political landscape of Europe. I am reading Bolling’s book on Romans with re-reading Roland Bainton’s biography of Martin Luther. I have posted a longer comment on Luther  in another setting.
But re-reading Luther’s biography by Roland [...]

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“The Gospel According To Paul: A Plain Man’s Guide To Romans”

By Malgwyn | August 6, 2010

“The Gospel According To Paul: A Plain Man’s Guide To Romans” by Per Bolling, Autumn House, 2009. This book was a gift some months old, which I picked up to read recently when I found myself reading Paul’s Letter to the Romans. (Just click the forward arrow on the above link to go through Paul’s Letter to the Romans [...]

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Screwtape For The New Atheists

By Malgwyn | July 18, 2010

“For anyone who has read the more dreadful histrionic books for and against atheism, Eberstadt’s letters are a welcome relief. Her tone is just right, and her premise enables her to hit heavy topics without devolving into polemic. The New Atheists’ selfrighteous, mostly humourless stance has been ripe for a takedown for years, and The [...]

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