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Review of Passionate Housewives

Robin Phillips — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:05:56 +0000

The book Passionate Housewives Desperate for God succeeds in its attempt to offer "fresh vision for the hopeful homemaker" and gets to the root of the Christian calling.

Review of Robin Hood Movie

Robin Phillips — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:32:56 +0000

For all it's aesthetic problems, Ridley Scott’s recent movie get's one thing right: Robin Hood was no socialist. Click here to read what "Robin Hood Economics" is really all about.

Review of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades)

Robin Phillips — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:51:21 +0000

Over the past thousand years, the most significant and sustained attacks against Christendom have overwhelmingly come from that wing of paganism we call Islam. Understanding this threat is central to defending civilization from barbarism. That is why I heartily recommend Robert Spencer's excellent book.

Review of The Marketing of Evil

Robin Phillips — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:42:49 +0000

When considering the massive influx of paganism into American society during the past thirty years, a number of questions naturally arise? For example, how did our society move, in less than one generation, from considering homosexuals to be criminals to treating them as a minority group in need of special protection? How did we go, in an even shorter space of time, from considering abortion to be murder to considering it to be a universal right? How did the ideologies of evolution, feminism, sexual revolution and the neo-paganism of pop culture come to be mainstream? These are the questions that David Kupelian addresses in his remarkable book The Marketing of Evil.

Review of Hollywood Worldviews, by Brian Godawa

Robin Phillips — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:10:22 +0000

Because we typically watch films to be entertained, it is easy to switch our minds off in front of the set. If a movie is explicitly anti-Biblical, a Christian may sit up and take note that a wrong message is being portrayed. Or if there is excessive amounts of sex and violence, a Christian may classify the film as ‘worldly’ and turn off the set. All the while, too little attention is given to the more subtle and subliminal worldviews being portrayed by Hollywood. This is a shame since subliminal worldviews conveyed by art are more powerful than any amount of direct assertions since they bypasses the critical faculty. That is why Brian Godawa's book Hollywood Worldviews is such an important book.

Review of The God Delusion

Robin Phillips — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:47:33 +0000

Mr. Dawkins has certainly produced a book worthy of his reputation as Britain’s leading atheist. In The God Delusion, the internationally best-selling author has taken 406 pages to tell us that God does not exist, that the Bible is total fiction, that religion is a virus of the mind and that Christianity is dangerous to society.

Miracle on 34th Street and the Problem of Postmodern Epistemology

Robin Phillips — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:31:34 +0000

This article looks at Santa Clause as an icon of Post Modern Epistemology, as epitomized in the popular movie Miracle on 34th Street. This article traces dualisms that go back to the time of the Enlightenment and have reached fruition in the divided epistemology so clearly spelled out in this movie. The author explores the nature of faith, imagination and fantasy from a Biblical worldview, contrasting that with the Santa Clause world offered by Postmodernism and Miracle on 34th Street.