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    Monday
    Apr012013

    Cold-Case Christianity 

    REVIEWED BY4Tim Challies

     

    By J. Warner Wallace

    David C. Cook Pub., Dec. 2012

    Paperback, 224 pages, $17.99

    THE FRENCH have a phrase I love: Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose: The more things change, the more they stay the same. While time marches on, and while the Christian faith marches on, the objections to it remain very much the same. Likewise, there are only so many arguments for the existence of God and the accuracy of the Bible. But even while the arguments remain much the same, it can be helpful to present them in fresh ways.

    In the late 1990s Lee Strobel exploded onto the scene with The Case for Christ. His unique angle

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    Wednesday
    Feb132013

    The Book of the Elders: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers

    REVIEWED By Stephen Sharman

    Translated by John Wortley

    Cistercian Publications, Jan. 2012

    Hardcover, 386 pages, $50

    E-book format, $26

     

    THE EARLY FOURTH century meets the 21st when a famous anthology of spiritual wisdom is translated from Greek into modern English by a Canadian scholar and made available worldwide in e-book format.

    Dr Wortley is a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada, a professor emeritus of the University of Manitoba, a specialist in Byzantine History and a researcher of monastic literature. In this volume

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    Thursday
    Dec202012

    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    Directed by Peter Jackson

    Based on the book The Hobbit

    by J.R.R. Tolkien

    Reviewed by Peter T. Chattaway

    EVER SINCE Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of the Lord of the Rings trilogy made nearly three billion dollars worldwide – and earned seventeen Oscars between the three films, to boot – it has been a given that someone, somewhere would make a prequel based on the book that introduced the world to Hobbits in the first place.

    But there were certain obvious questions hanging over the inevitable follow-up.

    First, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was essentially a children’s story, and lighter in tone than the more adult-oriented trilogy that followed it; it was also easily the shortest book of the lot. Would audiences used to the epic intensity of Jackson’s first trilogy accept a more kid-friendly story with smaller stakes? Or would the new film push the story in a more mature direction,

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    Saturday
    Nov242012

    The Book of Common Prayer: Past, Present and Future A 350th Anniversary Celebration

    Edited by Prudence Dailey

    Continuum, Nov. 2011

    Softcover, 216 pages, $21.95

     

     

    AS THE SUBTITLE suggests, this volume offers a celebration of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer by women and men who use it, love it, and desire to share its treasures with others. While some discussion of earlier antecedents (1549, 1552, 1559) and later developments is included, the focus remains on the 1662 gold standard.

    Much like The Oxford Guide to The Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey, this volume collects essays by a wide variety of authors – priests, laypeople, college principals, bishops – not all of whom are scholars. Following an introduction by His Royal Highness Prince Charles,

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    Friday
    Sep282012

    This is My Beloved Son: The Transfiguration of Christ

    By Andreas Andreopoulos
    Paraclete Press, 2012
    Trade Paper, 142 pages, $19.99



    THIS FINE BOOK contains a study of the Transfiguration of Christ in which his appearance, his face and clothing shone brilliantly white, dazzling the eyes of his disciples Peter, James and John. This miracle is a revelation of his glory as the Son of God.
    Andreas Andreopoulos is a deacon of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in Great Britain. He is a scholar and a teacher of theology, formerly in the

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