Is God Just a Human Invention? Sean McDowell and Jonathan Morrow (C) 2010 Kregel Publications Completed May, 2020 Summary: Anyone who has grown up in church and has asked difficult questions about faith and God has been told to “just believe it” at some time or another without being encouraged to search out answers. Sean […]
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Book Review: The Fifth Domain
The Fifth Domain Richard A Clarke and Robert K Knake (C) 2019 Penguin Press Completed March, 2020 Summary: Resilience is the key to maintaining secure systems in cyberspace. The idea here is to shift the advantage in cyberspace from the attacker to the defender. This quote sums it up, “We want to make our defenses […]
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Foreign To Familiar Sarah A. Lanier (C) 2000 McDougal Publishing Completed Feb, 2020 Summary: Lanier has lived in many countries across the globe. During that time she has grown in an understanding that cultures are different. In this book she identifies some broad differences between what she calls Hot-Climate and Cold-Climate cultures. Hot-climate cultures are […]
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Forgiving As We’ve Been Forgiven L. Gregory Jones & Celestin Musekura (C) 2010 IVP Books Completed Jan, 2020 Summary: If you’ve over a certain age, you remember the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Many of us in the USA have only a passing knowledge of that series of events. We are aware that there were two […]
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Cold-Case Christianity J.Warner Wallace (C) 2013 David C. Cook Completed Jan, 2020 Summary: Wallace is a police detective in California specializing in cold-case investigations. A self-described “angry atheist”, Wallace attended a church service with a fellow officer and heard a characterization of Jesus that was different. Wallace began reading the Gospels and noticed they appeared […]
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