In this section I’ve compiled a list of links to my various book and film reviews.
Book Reviews
1. Mark Roncace, Raw Revelation: The Bible They Never Tell You About
2. Marcus Borg, Putting Away Childish Things
3. James Spiegel, The Making of an Atheist
4. Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven
5. Steve Miller, Near Death Experiences
6. Paul Copan, Jeremy Evans and Heath A. Thomas, eds., Holy War in the Bible
7. Chad Meister and James K. Dew Jr., eds. God and Evil: The Case for God in a World filled with Pain
9. Eric A. Seibert. The Violence of Scripture: Overcoming the Old Testament’s Troubling Legacy
10. David T. Lamb, God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?
11. Sharon L. Baker. Razing Hell: Rethinking everything you’ve been taught about God’s wrath and judgment (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
12. Christopher Wright, The God I Don’t Understand
13. Fred Sanders, The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything
14. Stephen Law, Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked Into an Intellectual Black Hole
15. Thom Stark. The Human Faces of God: What Scripture reveals when it gets God wrong (and Why Inerrancy Tries To Hide It) (Part 1) (Part 2)
17. William Lane Craig and J.P. Moreland (eds.), Naturalism: A Critical Analysis
18. James Beilby, Epistemology as Theology: An Evaluation of Alvin Plantinga’s Religious Epistemology
19. Veli-Matti Karkkainen, The Trinity: Global Perspectives
20. Paul Copan. Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)
21. Stephen Meyer, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (Part 1) (Part 2)
22. John Loftus, ed., The Christian Delusion (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5) (Part 6) (Part 7) (Part 8) (Part 9)
23. John Loftus, ed., The End of Christianity (Part 1) (Part 1a) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 4a) (Part 4b) (Part 5) (Part 6) (Part 7) (Part 7a) (Part 8) (Part 9) (Part 9a) (Part 9b) (Part 10) (Part 11) (Part 12) (Afterword) (Afterword Part 2) (Afterword Part 3)
24. Yoram Hazony, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture
25. Bruce Epperly, Process Theology: A Guide for the Perplexed
26. Matthew Levering, Predestination: Biblical and Theological Paths
27. Gerald O’Collins, Rethinking Fundamental Theology
28. George Lindbeck, The Church in a Postliberal Age
29. Clark Pinnock, Most Moved Mover
30. William Alston, A Sensible Metaphysical Realism
31. Willem J. van Asselt and Eef Dekker, eds., Reformation and Scholasticism: An Ecumenical Enterprise
32. Stanley Grenz. Rediscovering the Triune God: The Trinity in Contemporary Theology
33. Stanley Grenz, The Social God and the Relational Self
34. Gabriel Fackre, The Doctrine of Revelation
35. Stanley Grenz, Renewing the Center: Evangelical Theology in a Post-Theological Era
36. Matt Mikalatos, Imaginary Jesus
37. Eleonore Stump, Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering
38. Stephen R. Holmes, The Quest for the Trinity
38. Peter Boghossian, A Manual for Creating Atheists, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9
39. Matthew Barrett and Ardel B. Caneday, eds. Four Views on the Historical Adam
40. Ronald E. Osborn, Death Before the Fall
41. Rick Mattson, Faith is Like Skydiving
42. W. Mark Lanier, Christianity on Trial
44. John Loftus, Why I Became an Atheist, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12, part 13, part 14, part 15, part 16
45. Russell Blackford and Udo Schüklenk, Fifty Great Myths About Atheism
46. Peter Enns, The Bible Tells Me So
47. Tim Keller, The Reason for God, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
48. Michael L. Brown, Can You Be Gay and Christian?, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
49. Joshua Ryan Butler, The Skeletons in God’s Closet, part 1, part 2, part 3
50. Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan, Did God Really Command Genocide?, part 1, part 2, part 3
51. Brad Jersak, A More Christlike God
52. C. Stephen Evans, God and Moral Obligation
53. Os Guinness, Fool’s Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion
55. Mark Roncace, God’s Story: The Bible Epic from Abraham to Exile
57. J.L. Schellenberg, The Hiddenness Argument
58. Philip Yancey, The Question that Never Goes Away
59. David E. Alexander and Daniel M. Johnson, Calvinism and the Problem of Evil
60. Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do
61. Michael Shermer, The Moral Arc, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
62. Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
63. Mark Roncace, Holy Hilarity
64. George Sarris, Heaven’s Doors
65. Abby Hafer, The Not-So-Intelligent Designer
66. J. Steve Miller, Faith That’s Not Blind
67. Dale Tuggy, What is the Trinity?
68. Frank Schaeffer and EJG2, Letter to Lucy
69. Tawa J. Anderson, W. Michael Clark, and David K. Naugle, An Introduction to Christian Worldview: Pursuing God’s Perspective in a Pluralistic World
70. Robin Parry, The Biblical Cosmos: A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Weird and Wonderful World of the Bible
71. Kevin Miller, ed. Hellrazed?
72. Lydia McGrew, Hidden in Plain View
73. Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
74. John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton, The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest
75. Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell, Evidence that Demands a Verdict
76. Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner and Saint
77. Douglas Groothuis, Walking Through Twilight
78. James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
79. Steve Baughman, Cover-Up in the Kingdom
80. Dru Johnson and Yoram Hazony, eds. The Question of God’s Perfection
81. Tim Muehlhoff and Richard Langer, Winsome Persuasion: Christian Influence in a Post-Christian World
82. Biography as Theology: How Life Stories Can Remake Today’s Theology
83. Trent Horn, Why We’re Catholic
84. Bill Geist, Lake of the Ozarks
85. Gregg Davidson, Friend of Science, Friend of Faith
86. Greg Boyd, Inspired Imperfection
87. Thomas Jay Oord, God Can’t
88. J.L. Schellenberg, Progressive Atheism
89. David Instone-Brewer, Church Doctrine & the Bible
90. Paul Chamberlain and Chris Price, eds. Everyday Apologetics: Answering common objections to the Christian faith
91. Beth Allison Barr, The Remaking of Biblical Womanhood
92. Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?
93. Mark Dickinson, Canadian Primal
94. Jason A. Crook, The Rational Faith, part 1; part 2
95. Dan Barker, God: The Most Unpleasant Character in all Fiction
96. Jeffrey J. Kilmartin, God Calling: Spiritual Direction for People in the Real World
97. Michael Bird, Seven Things I Wish Every Christian Knew About the Bible
98. Andrew Marin, Us Versus Us: The Untold Story of Religion and the LGBT Community
99. John Dickson, Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History
100. Eric Seibert, Enjoying the Old Testament: A Creative Guide to Encountering Scirpture
101. J. Richard Middleton, Abraham’s Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God
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Film Reviews
1. Hellbound
3. Take Shelter
4. The Grey (Part 1) (Part 2)
6. Don’t be Afraid of the Dark
7. Expelled
8. Buried
9. True Grit
10. Gasland
11. Body of War
14. Avatar
15. Requiem
18. 127 Hours
20. Malls R Us
21. Being Elmo
23. Rabbit Hole
24. State of Mind
25. Hell House
26. Away from Her
27. Of Gods and Men
28. Fair Game
29. Paranoid Park
30. The Woodsman
31. Encounters at the End of the World
32. Frailty
34. All is Lost
35. Cosmos
36. Short Term 12
37. Solitary Nation
40. God’s not Dead
41. The Wolf of Wall Street (admittedly I didn’t see this movie but I still reviewed it!)
42. Boyhood
43. American Sniper
44. I’ll Be Me
45. The Martian
47. India’s Daughter
49. Citizenfour
50. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
53. Love and Mercy
56. Lights Out
57. Alien Covenant
58. Gleason
59. Arrival
60. All Saints
61. Little Evil
62. Best of Enemies
64. A Quiet Place
66. Lucky
67. Fahrenheit 11/9
68. The Troll Hunter
69. Dumplin
70. Yesterday
