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№50
Title: Me Of Little Faith [$]
Author: Lewis Black
Publisher: Riverhead
Year: 2008
Pages: 256
I like Lewis Black’s standup, and I like him on The Daily Show; I was less than impressed, however, by his sort-of-biography, Nothing’s Sacred. Lewis qua storyteller with occasional [...]
If you haven’t already heard of the Duggar family from their show on the Discovery Channel, or from other various and sundry news reports that pop up every time Mr. & Mrs. Fecundity drop a new child into the world (every nine months), then let me sum it up for you: they’re a family [...]
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№38
Title: God’s Problem [$]
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: HarperOne
Year: 2008
Pages: 304
Bart D. Ehrman is a compelling scholar, or so I’m told. I was entirely underwhelmed by his previous work, The Lost Gospel of Judas, which was largely a historical curiosity with [...]
amenable
adj. willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions
amiable
adj. friendly; kind; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas
amenity
n. thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant
n. pleasantness
amen
adv. at the end of prayers: so be it
adv. at the end of a creed or in Biblical translations: [...]
There’s been a lot in the new recently about the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints—or, rather, Mormons stuck in the early, polygamist mode of the church.
My thoughts about the Mormon Church in general are not positive: it was founded by a crook, it seems, for the sole purpose of getting him [...]
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№30
Title: A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam [$]
Author: Karen Armstrong
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Year: 1994
Pages: 496
Among religious historians, Karen Armstrong is a titan. Certainly, she’s prolific: since 1982, she’s published 22 books, as well as [...]
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№28
Title: Saint Francis of Assisi [$]
Author: G.K. Chesterton
Publisher: Image
Year: 1987
Pages: 160
I didn’t simply decide on day to big up G.K. Chesterton’s paean to St. Francis of Assisi. Actually, the slim tome was given to me by my employer, a Franciscan [...]
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№25
Title: God Is Not Great [$]
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group
Year: 2007
Pages: 307
Continuing a long and somewhat tawdry literary affair with the much-loved and oft-maligned Christopher Hitchens, I am reading his latest, God Is Not Great. This is [...]
apocryphal
adj. of doubtful authenticity.
Apocryphal the adjective is derived from the word Greek apokrypha (ἀπόκρυφα), meaning “that which is hidden”—or, alternatively, through Latin apocryphus. It originally simply indicated writings (usually of a religious or religio-historical nature) which were not part of a canon. This could have been anything: alternative gospels, for instance, or [...]
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