Category: reviews
Book Review: The God Effect: How Suggestion And Ritual Shape Religion And Medicine Through Placebo Responses By Colin Brewer
It was my pleasure to read Colin Brewer’s new book The God Effect on the invitation of his publisher. Dr. Brewer, who practised psychiatry for more than four decades, has a warm and personab [...]
Review: Rooted Through Darkness By Kate Sutherland
Kate Sutherland's Rooted Through Darkness is a thoughtful exploration of resilience, belonging, and the quiet forms of hope that emerge when we learn to move through darkness together. [...]
Book Review: Humanism: Canadian Perspectives by Humanist Canada
Some books are best judged not only by the answers they provide but by the conversations they invite. Humanism: Canadian Perspectives is one of those books [...]
Book Review: Beyond Belief: A Former Fundamentalist Examines the Case for God by David C. Monkcom
Secular critiques of religion often adopt a confrontational tone, treating faith as something to be dismantled rather than understood. David Monckom's Beyond Belief: A Former Fundamentalist [...]
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BOOK REVIEW: Sarah Bakewell’s HUMANLY POSSIBLE: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking and Hope
Reviewing a new study of humanist thought and humanist lives from the 14th to the 20th centuries, in a book which appeals equally to those familiar with the historical context and those seek [...]
Book Review: Miss Bo Lyell’s Rambles In The New World by M. K. SINGLETON
This is a fictional story of two ladies, Boadeccia (Bo) from Warwickshire and Danica from Leicestershire, young cousins from the old, influential and rich Lyell family. In 1869, they sailed [...]
Book Review: The Upswing (Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn R.Garrett)
An examination of the synchronicity of four major trends in American society over the last 125 years: economic, political, social, and cultural. [...]
Book Review: Three Books by Carlo ROVELLI
In Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Helgoland & The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli, a top theoretical physicist and co-author of the quantum loop gravity theory, explains Einstein’s general the [...]
Book Review: Blip: Humanity’s 300 Year Self-Terminating Experiment With Industrialism (Clugston)
America supports 330 million people who eat food, drive cars, consume everything in sight, and utilize over 80 different minerals and metals that make our civilization work. Those non-renew [...]
Book Review: Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can’t Deliver (Smith)
There is much to praise in Christian Smith's Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can't Deliver. The prose is fresh and clear, and the ideas are painstakingly presented with considerable academic [...]
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