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Book Reviews

Israel, Palestine, Canada and Trying to Understand

I finished Yves Engler’s book on Israel and Canada while I’m here, along with Chomsky and Ilan Pappé’s book: Gaza in Crisis. What a history we (Canada) have with modern Israel, the settlements, Zionism, weapon trade, military training, economic support, maintaining the apartheid policies and oppressing/murdering the Palestinian people. It’s sickening and further disenfranchises me …

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Book Review – The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

I was born in raised in Sarnia, Ontario. There is a number of First Nations reserves all around Sarnia including Aamjiwnaang, Chippewas and Bkejwanong. Just so you know my level of knowledge going into this book, I had to look up the spelling of all three of those and I wasn’t sure about the names of two …

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Book Review – True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenge of Atheism

Recently a good friend of mine, Troy, has decided to go in the way of the Atheist worldview. Troy has a similar history to me growing up in the Pentecostal church and as of recently we’ve been working together for the last few years, are neighbours and we share chickens in his back yard. Naturally, …

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Top 3 Books of 2008

I’m not a big book reader. I do my best, and when I find a good book it’s difficult to put it down, but I am far from considering myself well read. But this past year was a very significant year in reading for me because of how we are doing our message series with …

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A Heretics Guide to Eternity

I just finished reading Spencer Burke’s book A Heretics Guide to Eternity. It was an enjoyable and easy read overall. His thesis could probably be summed up in a few sentences found on page 61… “Religion declares that we are separated from God, that we are ‘outsiders.’ Grace tells us the opposite; we are already …

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