Gravity - film review
A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.
Cold-Case Christianity – a review
Read this book if you want to be prepared to speak to anyone interested in why they can trust the accounts they read in the Gospels. And…
We Need To Talk About Kevin
The colour red suffuses We Need to Talk About Kevin. Red paint is smeared across walls and car window screens, red jam oozes out of…
Knight and Day
What do we do when opportunities come our way? Do we sit back and watch them pass us by, or do we seize the day and chase our dreams? It is…
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ – a review
A review of Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…
Knowing
In 1959, the children of a new elementary school bury a time capsule containing their ideas of what they think the world will be like in…
Lark Rise to Candleford
It doesn’t take usually take too much persuasion to get me to try a new box set of DVDs, but I have to say that I was a little…
Carl Sagan: The Skeptic's Sceptic
This extended review provides some excellent responses to arguments that Sagan used and which keep cropping up today.