Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Kevin Miller, Book Reviews
(Brian D. McLaren & Tony Campolo. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003.). Review by Kevin Miller. Have evangelicals missed the point? That’s certainly how I assessed the situation as I walked into Borders bookstore recently. I’d even been kicking around ideas for a...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Kevin Miller, Book Reviews
(Evan Wright. New York: G. Putnam’s Sons, 2004). Review by Kevin Miller. “I’ll say one thing about these guys: When we take fire, not one of them hesitates to shoot back. In World War Two, when Marines hit the beaches, a surprisingly high percentage of them didn’t...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Linda McQuaig, with a forward by Noam Chomsky (Toronto: Doubleday, 2004). Review by Ron Dart. "With a keen eye and grim wit, McQuaig’s perceptive inquiry into the world’s energy system strips away layer after layer of deceit, cynicism, racism, sordid...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
(Nashville, TN:W Publishing Group, 2004). Not long ago, sociologist-activist-author Tony Campolo survived a serious stroke. In the aftermath, he emerged with new sense of prophetic urgency. The subtitle of his new book summarizes his redoubled mission this way: “The...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Noam Chomsky (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004). Review by Ron Dart. “Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty, and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.”—The New York Times “Chomsky…is a major scholarly...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Robin Mathews (Vancouver: Northland Publications, 2004). Review by Ron Dart. “I’m not saying Robin Mathews is nearly as good as he’s going to be. But he’s so far ahead of the ruck, right now, that if he wanted to look back at them, he’d have to use binoculars.”...
