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While
the Internet is a great place for researching topics,
inevitably, my research leads me to books. Featured on this
page is a selection of ones I have found helpful. I recommend
them to you. In those instances where I have reviewed a book,
there is a link to that review included at the end of the
book's description.
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The Gospel of Luke and the
Acts of the Apostles are together an accurate legal brief,
written to defend the apostle Paul, who would soon stand
trial in Rome for a long list of offenses including
inciting riots, advocating an illegal, new religion, and
upsetting the social order. This is the thesis of Paul
on Trial -The Book of Acts as a Defense of Christianity,
by John W. Mauck (Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville,
2001).
This book has been reviewed.
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Religion's influence in the
world is pervasive. Even atheists will concede this fact.
Therefore, a well-rounded education must include religion
from the start. "An elementary school curriculum that
ignores religion gives students the false message that
religion doesn't matter to people - that we live in a
religion-free world," write Warren A. Nord and Charles C.
Haynes in their 1998 book, Taking Religion Seriously
Across the Curriculum. This book was reviewed.
This book has been reviewed. |
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When one
thinks of an anthropologist, visions of tents,
sweat-soaked khakis, and well-worn notebooks come to mind.
Integrity also comes to mind. These scientists, who make
their living by studying primarily pre-industrial peoples
and their cultures, are supposed to follow a code of
ethics similar to "The Prime Directive," made famous by
the science fiction TV show "Star Trek." But a book titled
Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists
Devastated the Amazon (W.W. Norton & Co.) raises
serious charges against anthropologists who studied the
Yanomami Indians in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil and
Venezuela during the 1960s.
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| The View
from the Grass Roots is an eclectic anthology of
Gregory J. Rummo's commentaries written about life in
20th- and 21st- century America. His columns are
provocative -- some are poignant, others wildly humorous.
"The View from the Grass Roots" is 336 pages of
entertaining reading, characterized by one reviewer as "Chicken
Soup for the Soul with a dash of cayenne pepper."
Rummo is the winner of five journalism awards in the last
three years including 2nd place ($5,000) in the 2001 Amy
Writing Contest. |
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Every Man's Battle
offers a biblical approach to achieving victory over
sexual temptation. The book is salted with many helpful
scripture references that are artfully interwoven with a
series of brutally honest anecdotes, detailing the sexual
failures of a number of men who had been controlled by
their insatiable lust before finding deliverance in the
pages of God’s Word.
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"What
would Jesus do?” is the main theme of the popular
Christian novel entitled In His Steps, written by
Charles M. Sheldon and first published in 1897. James S.
Bell, Jr., the editor of the recent 1998 edition of this
classic writes, “As pastor of Central Congregational
Church of Topeka, he was ahead of his time—an evangelical
who embraced the social gospel, that is, to reach the
whole person for Christ.
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book has been reviewed. |
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The silence about a
mechanism for molecular evolution—how simple organic
molecules could spontaneously rearrange themselves into
the complex proteins, enzymes, and cellular structures
necessary for life—from even the highest ivory towers of
academia is deafening. The reasons for the silence are
elucidated in this well researched and truly moving book,
Darwin’s Black Box, by Lehigh University professor of
Biochemistry Michael J. Behe.
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Marvin
Olasky, the father of compassionate conservatism, writing
in Renewing American Compassion (Free Press, 1996)
says: "Government's ability to promote compassion rather
than provide services is directly connected to improving
its performance in areas that are the center of its
mission. Our predecessors understood the Constitution's
charge to promote the general welfare as ensuring an
environment within which individual and community action
could flourish." |
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"More
Christians died for their faith in the 20th century than
at any other time in history," writes Harold J. Chadwick,
editor of The New Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Bridge
Logos Publishers, 1997). Christian Solidarity
International reports: "Global reports indicate that over
150,000 Christians were martyred last year alone." This
book sets the historic record straight for those who seek
to blame religion and specifically Christianity for all of
the ills in the world. |
| How many of
us are aware of the persecution of our fellow believers
outside of this country? By Their Blood -- Christian
Martyrs of the Twentieth Century, by James and Marti
Hefley (Baker Book House), is a good place to start
learning about the price that our brothers and sisters
have paid for simply believing the Gospel. |
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Gregory J. Rummo is a
syndicated columnist. Read all of his columns on his homepage,
www.GregRummo.com. E-Mail Rummo at GregoryJRummo@aol.com
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