Category: Book Reviews

Finding Your Way Back Home

Lost Everyone knows what it’s like to be lost. Like a child separated from its mother, you’re unsure of which way to go. You search for something familiar, something that can help you find your way back…. Something that can help you find your way home. In early 1941 — the high-water mark of the…
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“Paul: A Biography” by N.T. Wright – Review

The Apostle Paul in Context If asked to justify their faith, some Christians point to Anselm’s ontological argument, others to objective morality, but most serious Christians always come back to a singular event – the Apostle Paul and his Damascus Road conversion. In his book, Paul: A Biography, author N.T. Wright shows that this was much…
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Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide – Review

Edward Feser’s book, Aquinas: A Beginners Guide, serves as an edifying introduction to the saint’s “Five Ways” theses for defending God’s existence. Feser does a superb job of simplifying Aquinas, a saint whose work is notoriously hard to comprehend. He goes to great pains to ensure that everyone – from the seasoned “Thomist” to the complete…
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Signature in the Cell by Stephen C. Meyer

Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design is a scholastic attempt at defending intelligent design as a theory worthy of inclusion within the halls of academia. The foundation of Dr. Stephen C Meyer’s argument lies with the information contained within the DNA molecule. Dr. Meyer argues that, like a computer program,…
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Review – The Devil’s Delusion by David Berlinski

In his book, The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions, bestselling author and university professor, David Berlinski excoriates atheists and their use of scientific pretensions to justify their faith. Berlinksi – a secularist at heart – correctly points out what everyone already knew. No one, not atheists, not Christians, not that weird guy with the…
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