Reviews

By Grant Steves The Family, Jeff Sharlet, Harper Collins Publishing, 2008, 454 pages Complacency is a luxury given to the comfortable. To paraphrase M. Niemöller, ‘First they came for the gays, and I didn’t speak up, because I was not gay. Then they came for the Humanists, and I didn’t Read more

By James Zimmerman Into Temptation, the new film written and directed by Patrick Coyle, takes its viewers on a trip through guilt, sin, and redemption. The film explores the causes and effects in a person’s life that lead, ultimately, to desperate decisions. If it sounds like heavy subject matter, it Read more

By James Zimmerman You’re not going to learn anything new reading this book.  But that’s not an indictment of the book, no, it’s a comment on your age.  Disbelief is intelligently designed to appeal to the tween/early-teen crowd, and it does a superb job.  Indeed, it is the best book Read more

By James Zimmerman If we take the word Cinema at its root (from the Greek kinesis, meaning “movement”), then pure cinema has been dying since the advent of synchronized sound.  Too many movies are simply footage of people talking, or of a camera sitting idly by recording whatever happens to Read more

By Grant Steves In the many books I have reviewed in the Newsletter the focus has been on religion and atheism.  They were excellent books that challenged our thinking about how we confronted our religion and became atheists. At the base of this is the problem of communication and understanding Read more