Book Reviews

• The Celtic Way of Evangelism  
  After he read my article "The Leaven Community," my bishop Dan Morse sent me a copy of this book. You have to read books – especially books written by professors at mainstream Protestant seminaries – the same way you eat catfish: swallow the meat and spit out the bones. 
   
• HURTLING TOWARD OBLIVION
  (With an Alien Presupposition on Board)
  A close friend handed me this book with a request to read it and explain what I thought about it.  With all due humility, I think the author is very confused -- a Christian theist with a deistic worldview.  I suppose that requires some explanation.
   
• CRASHMAKER
  We know how fragile the fraudulent monetary and financial system is, but have you ever wondered – no, longed to see – what would happen if a small, savvy group of people decided to bring down the system with it own leverage?  Crashmaker tells that story.
   
• HONKY-TONK GOSPEL:  The Story of Sin & Salvation in Country Music
  I would read the label on a potato chip bag if I knew Ed Veith had written it.  Although (or perhaps because) he specialises in art criticism, Ed Veith has a superb gift for critiquing modern culture from a Christian standpoint.
   
• SHOOTING BACK: The Right and Duty of Self Defense
  On July 25, 1993 Charl van Wyk was worshipping in the evening service at St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa.  Two terrorists entered the rear of the large sanctuary and began shooting and lobbing grenades into the congregation.  Charl van Wyk was armed.
   
• THE DIET CURE
  Most everybody has heard by now – and, unfortunately, ignored – that white sugar and white flour aren’t good for you.  The bigger news is that the whole cholesterol/low fat campaign may positively harm you.
   
• THE MOOD CURE
  In The Mood Cure Julia Ross continues to apply the pathbreaking work she explained in The Diet Cure, but she focuses on malfunctioning moods.
   
• The Rise & Decline of the State 
  Once in a great while a book appears that offers a profoundly different view of the present and future and a path to break out of the conceptual blocks that stymie our thinking. Martin van Creveld, now a professor of history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has written not one, but two such books.
   
• Alan Stang publishes another unforgettable book -  Perestroika Sunset 
  Hardly, he replied, with more than 300,000 American military personnel still stationed in 100 countries around the globe. The US bombs Iraq, Serbia, or Devil-nation-of-the-month, then out of nowhere sends Marines to East Timor.