Ben Witherington on Pagan Christianity

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Mike F.

Ben Witherington critiques Frank Viola and George Barna’s Pagan Christianity (part 2, part 3, part 4). He does a good job of exposing the bias and academic trickery behind the book. (Although I do think it asks some of the right questions, as I wrote here.)

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Free as in Beer

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Mike F.

Canon Press putting up its stuff on Google Books got me thinking about giving away content you would normally pay for.  I’m not an “information deserves to be free” kind of guy, but I do have some sympathies that lean that way.  I think that if you work hard on something, whether a book, movie, [...]

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Bookshelf 2007

Posted on December 31, 2007 by Mike F.

This is a comprehensive list of all the books I read in 2007, with appropriate links.

Evil and the Justice of God by N.T. Wright (my review here)
The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman: the Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman
The Butlerian Jihad by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert
The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus [...]

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Review: This Mighty Scourge by James McPherson

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Mike F.

James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge; Perspectives on the Civil War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) 260pp.
James McPherson’s This Mighty Scourge is a set of sixteen essays dealing with the origins and repercussions of the Civil War.  It is an ambitious work that seeks to give the reader an understanding of why the country went [...]

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Obligatory Pre-Halloween Post

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Mike F.

I was just watching a show on TBN (I know, I know) about spiritual warfare. It was implicitly about Halloween and how Christians who celebrate it are bringing Satan into their homes, much to their destruction. They had this one guy on who said before he was a Christian his kids read the [...]

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