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Today (March 10th), the London Times (online) posted an article on Michael Henderson's No Enemy to Conquer: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World. Read it here.
"... this book is ecumenical history at its best." So writes Mark Noll of Patricia Ward's Experimental Theology in America: Madam Guyon, Fenelon, and Their Readers. Read the full review from Books and Culture.
Is it "Time for a Separation of Church and Sports?" a recent article asks. Shirl James Hoffman's Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sport continues to provoke conversation. Read the latest from Politics Daily here.
"Does God want competition? Does God want competition redeemed?" Read the recent discussion Shirl James Hoffman's Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sport has been stirring up on beliefnet.com. Click here to see the initial post and here to see the follow-up.
"For Nikki Bado-Fralick, it began with the board game Mormon-Opoly. For Rebecca Sachs Norris, the object was an action figure of Job, boils covering his plastic body." This week, the Chronicle of Higher Education published these leading lines in its February 14 review of Bado-Fralick and Norris's Toying with God: The World of Religious Games and Dolls. You can read the full review at The Chronicle Review online.
Gregory Ganssle, author of A Reasonable God: Engaging the New Face of Atheism, recently sat down for an interview with the Evangelical Philosophical Society. Click here to read his interview on the EPS blog.
Read Shirl James Hoffman's (author of Good Game) follow-up to his interview on Fox and Friends here.
Catch Michael Hyde, author of Perfection: Coming to Terms with Being Human, on recent radio interviews with WPR's Here on Earth (click here to download the mp3) and American Variety Radio (click here to download the mp3).
Read The Christian Post's recent Q&A with Shirl James Hoffman regarding his latest book, Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sport. Hoffman's book is also garnering discussion on a broad spectrum of noteworthy blogs and online journals. Check out what The Wall Street Journal (online), the Philosophy of Sport blog, and the Paul Edwards blog have been saying about the book.
Christopher H. Evans, author of Liberalism Without Illusions: Renewing an American Christian Tradition, has provided commentary for pbs.org, discussing President Obama's "State of the Union" address in light of "prophetic civil religion" and "populist angst." Click here to read Christopher H. Evans' comments.
Booklist Magazine has reviewed Shirl James Hoffman's Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sport in its January 2010 edition. "The essential problem, [Hoffman] says, is that, in harnessing itself to sports, the Christian community doesn’t really have a clear sense of its goal or a coherent plan to achieve it. As a result, sport is becoming, in many ways, a mockery of Christianity, a superficial set of rites and behaviors with no spiritual or philosophical foundation. Many readers may disagree with the author’s thesis, but even they will agree that he supports it abundantly and argues it well." Read more of the review and others on the Good Game book page.
Michael J. Hyde's Perfection: Coming to Terms with Being Human has been reviewed in the January 2010 edition of Library Journal. "[Hyde's] review of the pertinent thinking of the included writers is interesting, engaging, and informative in a way that draws the reader in.... This book should be of interest to a large readership from scholars to lay readers; highly recommended for philosophy and cultural studies collections in most libraries." You can read more of this review and learn more about the book on the Perfection book page.
Christopher H. Evans' Liberalism Without Illusions: Renewing an American Christian Tradition was reviewed in the January 26, 2010 issue of Publishers Weekly. "... here Evans is at his finest.... Anyone interested in 20th- and 21st-century American Christianity needs to read and consider the suggestions Evans has to offer." Read the full review on the Liberalism Without Illusions book page.
Michael Gilmour’s Gods and Guitars: Seeking the Sacred in Post-1960s Popular Music was reviewed in the October 5, 2009 issue of Publishers Weekly. “What do Salman Rushdie and literary criticism have to do with rock music?...[Gilmour’s] treatment enriches the dialogue between religion and rock well beyond the usual Judeo-Christian interpretations. Tune in, read on and enjoy.” Read the entire review here on the Gods and Guitars book page.
Terence L. Donaldson’s Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 CE) was awarded the Beare award for best book in New Testament / Christian Origins at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies held in May 2009. Donaldson is Lord and Lady Coggan Professor of New Testament Studies at Wycliffe College and the Director of Advanced Degree Programs at the Toronto School of Theology.
Diane Winston, author of Small Screen, Big Picture: Television and Lived Religion was featured on Minnesota Public Radio’s syndicated Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett this July. The show “TV and Parables of Our Time” can be heard on podcast at http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/2009/tv/. Winston holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
Alfred I. Tauber’s newly released Science and the Quest for Meaning has been awarded a generous grant from the Templeton Publishing Subsidy Foundation. Tauber is Professor of Philosophy and Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University.
