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,…
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 ; 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 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…
Does life have any meaning ? By John Blanchard EP Books, 2018 81 pages £4.99 ISBN 978 1 783 972 272 The introduction to this short book begins with a story – a policeman was patrolling one of London’s bridges over the River Thames when he saw a man climbing on to the railings. Pulling…
Life in the wild : fighting for faith in a fallen world by Dan DeWitt The Goodbook Company, 2018 127 pages £8 ISBN 978 1 784 981 693 also available in Braille and Large Print Dan DeWitt starts this book with an introduction entitled ‘The Human Tragedy’ and ends it with an afterword ‘Death’s Obituary’.…
A Rabbi looks at the Last Days by Jonathan Bernis. Chosen Books, 2013 233 pages £10.99 ISBN 978 0 800 795 436 Kindle version also available The subtitle of this book gives a fairly clear idea of its direction and content – ‘Surprising insights on Israel, the End Times and Popular Misconceptions’. Rabbi Jonathan Bernis…
A passion for truth : the intellectual coherence of evangelicalism by Alister McGrath. Apollos, 1996 256 pages £14.99 ISBN 0 851 114 477 In 5 sections of closely argued and convincing detail, Alister McGrath demonstrates that evangelicalism enjoys intellectual coherence, (ie within its own terms it is reasonable) as well as academic credibility, that is,…
Oranges and Sunshine (dvd, 2010) 101 mins. If you can remain unmoved by this story, you must have a heart of stone. While it does not have a specifically Christian background it is quite definitely a film with a clear moral message. It is based on true historic events with real-time historic characters. Margaret Humphreys…