Reviews (Page 14)

Darwin’s Dilemma – DVD Review

Darwin’s Dilemma  dvd  Illustra Media 72 minutes 0 467 106 309  Available for purchase or on You Tube According to a leading palaeontologist the Cambrian explosion caused Charles Darwin more grief than joy. Nothing distressed him more. With graphic detail, this dvd examines what is, without doubt, one of the most spectacular events in the…

Against Calvanism – Book review

Against Calvinism  by Roger E Olson    Zondervan, 2011   £15   207 pages  ISBN 978 0 310 324 676 Also available as an eBook Roger Olson is a Baptist minister and a professor of theology at an American theological college. He has written this book to show the theological and logical weaknesses of Calvinism and, by implication,…

Gods Big Picture – DVD Review

God’s Big Picture : a Bible overview  by Vaughan Roberts Book  IVP, 2009  £8.99  170 pages  ISBN 978 1 844 743 704 dvd   IVP, 2017  £9.99   9 781 783 596 140 The book and dvd both trace the storyline of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and they can each be used quite independently with…

“The story of the Jews” – DVD Review

The Story of the Jews ; written and presented by Simon Schama (2013)                             BBC dvd 2 discs £7     5 programmes 5 hours subtitles             1)    In the Beginning             2)    Among Believers             3)    A Leap of Faith             4)    Over the Rainbow             5)    Return From ancient times to the present day, Simon…

“Knox” – DVD Review

Knox DVD   Trinity Digital, 2015    77 minutes  £12 John Knox was a reformer and a revolutionary. Born circa 1514 he lived for nearly 60 years and  was very much a child of his time – the time of Luther and the Protestant Reformation. This film looks at the life and legacy of this man who…