Book Review: Is The Atheist My Neighbor?
In his book Is the Atheist My Neighbor? Rethinking Christian Attitudes toward Atheism, analytic theologian Randal Rauser investigates common prejudices Christians hold about atheists. At the same time, he does a good job of displaying... Read More
Book Review: Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O’Reilly
In a way Bill O’Reilly is a literary version of Donald Trump—a man hell-bent on justifying his intellect by rehashing history while digging only into sources that support his opinions. O’Reilly’s views, on full display... Read More
The Gene: An Intimate History
BOOK BY SIDDARTHA MUKHERJEE SCRIBNER, 2016 608PP.; $38.00 At first glance, The Gene: An Intimate History may not be the best book for light reading. In nearly 500 pages, with an additional hundred pages of... Read More
Book Review: The Making of Working-Class Religion by Matthew Pehl How Do We Cultivate Working Class Humanism?
When 5 percent of the US population owns 63 percent of the country’s wealth and the bottom 40 percent of the population has none, and as the US middle class continues to shrink, the humanist... Read More
Book Review: Faithonomics An Economic Case for Jefferson’s Wall
Torkel Brekke’s Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market is a solid attempt to frame the role religion plays in societies around the world through the language of economics. The attempt itself is laudable, if only... Read More
Book Review: Grandmother Fish: A Child’s First Book of Evolution
BOOK BY JONATHAN TWEET; ILLUSTRATED BY KAREN LEWIS FEIWEL & FRIENDS, 2016 40PP.; $17.99 Simply written and delightfully illustrated, Grandmother Fish: A Child’s First Book of Evolution would be a great gift for the preschooler... Read More
Book Review: Hitler’s Religion
BOOK BY RICHARD WEIKART REGNERY, 2016 352 PP. In The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick's dystopian tale of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan conquering America, a supremely rational Japanese diplomat listens... Read More