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Reviews

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

8. William J. Webb. Corporal Punishment in the Bible: A Redemptive-Movement Hermeneutic for Troubling Texts

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)

16. Ken Lytle and Katie Corcoran Lytle, The Little Book of BIG F*#K Ups: 220 of History’s Most Regrettable Moments  

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

43. Robin Parry and Andrew Walker, Deep Church Rising: The Third Schism and the Recovery of Christian Orthodoxy

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

54. Austin Fischer, Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed: Black holes, love, and a journey in and out of Calvinism

55. Mark Roncace, God’s Story: The Bible Epic from Abraham to Exile

56. Steve Miller and Cherie Miller, Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense: A Practical Text for Critical and Creative Thinking

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. James Wm. McClendon, 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 

2. Hell and Back Again

3. Take Shelter

4. The Grey (Part 1) (Part 2)

5. The Lovely Bones

6. Don’t be Afraid of the Dark

7. Expelled

8. Buried

9. True Grit

10. Gasland

11. Body of War

12. At the Death House Door

13. You Don’t Know Jack

14. Avatar

15. Requiem

16. Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 

17. Midnight in Paris

18. 127 Hours

19. Searching for Sugar Man

20. Malls R Us

21. Being Elmo

22. The God Delusion Debate

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

33. Inside Llewyn Davis

34. All is Lost

35. Cosmos

36. Short Term 12

37. Solitary Nation

38. Last Call at the Oasis

39. Heaven is for Real

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

46. Hell and Mr. Fudge

47. India’s Daughter

48. Making a Murderer

49. Citizenfour

50. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

51. The Act of Killing

52. The Stoning of Soraya M.

53. Love and Mercy

54. O.J.: Made in America

55. I am Evel Knievel

56. Lights Out

57. Alien Covenant

58. Gleason

59. Arrival

60. All Saints

61. Little Evil

62. Best of Enemies

63. I Can Only Imagine

64. A Quiet Place

65. Bill Nye: Science Guy

66. Lucky

67. Fahrenheit 11/9

68. The Troll Hunter

69. Dumplin

70. Yesterday

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