Osteen’s “Gospel-Light” Message review of Become a Better You: Seven Keys to Improving Your Life Everyday
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 3 (2008). For...
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Promoting the Gospel of Self-Esteem review of Your Best Life Now: Seven Steps to Living at Your Full Potential by Joel Osteen
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 2 (2005). For...
Read MoreDangerous Spirituality for Teens
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 1 (2005). a book review of Teen Psychic: Exploring Your Intuitive Spiritual Powers by Julie Tallard Johnson (Bindu Books, 2003) and Fire in...
Read MoreLosing Our Voice in the Contemporary World: Summary Critique of A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 3 (2004). Christians have been summoned to be in the world but not of it (John 17:14–19) and to be both heavenly minded (Col. 3:1–2) and the...
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Made in the Image and Likeness of God
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 30, number 3 (2007) as a...
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Beyond Mere Christianity: An Assessment of C. S. Lewis
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 4 (2004). ...
Read MoreFlock of Dodos: We Dodos of Intelligent Design Salute You!
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 30, number 6 (2007). Let’s meet the feuding parties. On one side, we see the mostly likable, mostly friendly folks who use simple, clear, scientifically...
Read MorePolitically Correct Afterlife…The Five People You Meet in Heaven
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 5 (2004). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. In a song titled “Thank You” by Christian songwriter Ray...
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Hollywood vs. History” Kingdom of Heaven and the Real Crusades
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 3 (2006). For...
Read MoreThe Trouble with Harry: Authors Weigh in on the Potter Debate and Alternative Stories
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number1 (2008). J.K. Rowling’s phenomenally popular Harry Potter series launched only a decade ago, and while millions of...
Read Moregod Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 3 (2008). Christopher Hitchens does not like “god” one bit. In his polemical and sometimes bombastic tome, god Is Not Great: How Religion...
Read MoreThe Men and Message of Brokeback Mountain
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 2 (2006). Just when you thought it was safe to say, “Howdy, partner,” along came a cinematic romance between two cowboys that ignited a fresh...
Read MoreThe Impossibility of God
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005). Michael Martin is professor emeritus of philosophy at Boston University and author of books such as Atheism: A Philosophical...
Read MoreAtheists and Theists Analyze Anthony Flew’s Newfound Deism
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005). Oxford University–educated philosopher Antony Flew—son of a Methodist minister, atheist since age 15, and...
Read MoreChristian Wisdom of the Jedi Masters
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 6 (2005). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. Ever since the first Star Wars film appeared on the silver...
Read MoreThe Cook’s Tale: A Naturalist’s Quest for the Ingredients of Life – Review of The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 4 (2006). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. Richard Dawkins is professor of the Public Understanding of...
Read MoreAmerican Prophecies: Ancient Scriptures Reveal Our Nation’s Future
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 1 (2005). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide...
Read MoreThe End of Reason: Secularism, Paranoia, and the Folly of Sam Harris
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 1 (2006). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide...
Read MoreA Tale of Two Exorcisms
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 2 (2006). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide...
Read MoreThe Da Vinci Code: Tool for Evangelism?
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 4 (2004). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal,...
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