THE PAST 9 PANDEMICS SUGGEST COVID-19 MAY RELATE TO MOSES’ DIETARY LAWS. The Jews’ kosher diet is based on Moses giving the ancient Israelites food laws in which they could eat animals designated “clean” but not those “unclean.” Christians think these laws have no hygienic basis and that Jesus abolished them (Mark 7.19b). This author...
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The Christian Woman Set Free -Gene Edwards (Seedsowers 2005)
Women Freed from Second-Class Citizenship in the Kingdom of God. Seventeen hundred years is enough! Edwards leads the call to vanquish the inequality of women in the kingdom of God. His weapons of revelation? History, the Greek language, and his own witness of women in churches who are free. The author challenges Christian ministers to...
A Biblical Anthropology – Michael Bieleski (Mishma 2014)
The content of this book concerns the central religious questions of life-after-death, salvation and judgment, and whether the Christian scriptures present a cohesive view about these matters. It’s an enormous topic that has implications for virtually every aspect of human existence. In this book Michael approaches matters in a very biblically foundational way. He’s addressing...
The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate -John Walton (IVP ACADEMIC 2009)
In this astute mix of cultural critique and biblical studies, John H. Walton presents and defends twenty propositions supporting a literary and theological understanding of Genesis 1 within the context of the ancient Near Eastern world and unpacks its implications for our modern scientific understanding of origins. Ideal for students, professors, pastors and lay readers...
DON’T BLAME GOD -A BIBLICAL ANSWER TO THE PROBLEM OF EVIL, SIN AND SUFFERING -MARK GRAECER, JOHN LYNN, JOHN SCHOENHEIT (TRUTH OR TRADITION 2007)
Look at all the pain and suffering in the world. Why would a loving God allow this to happen? Why do bad things happen to good people? Is God really on your side, and is He really doing all He can to help you in every situation? Read on for more detail or buy the...
The One God, the Father, One Man Messiah Translation: New Testament with Commentary -Anthony Buzzard (2020)
Most churchgoers are unaware that what they receive in church as ‘Bible’ has been filtered to them through a lens of Greek philosophical thinking. This tradition adversely affects current Christian teaching, obscuring central aspects of the original belief of Jesus and the Apostles. Post-biblical councils did much to draw a veil over ‘the faith once...
Heirs of the Promise -Daniel Wolf (2000)
Theological study about who is the heir of the divine promises? Church or Israel? What the Bible says? 59 pages. 1€
The Old Brethren – James Lehman (The Brethren Press 1976)
The Old Brethren is a vivid portrait of a courageous community that dared to be different. Living entirely by the Bible “as it reads,” and dressing and acting in ways that often made them seem peculiar to their more sophisticated countrymen, the Brethren of the mid-19th century cultivated a faith that was simple, but not...
The Fracture of an Illusion: Science and the Dissolution of Religion -Pascal Boyer (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010)
Pascal Boyer argues that religion is largely an illusion. The anthropologist traces religion’s cognitive and evolutionary aspects. By religion he means a kind of existential and cognitive package that includes views about supernatural agency (gods), notions of morality, particular rituals and sometimes particular experiences, as well as membership in a particular community of believers. The...
Unitarian? What’s That? Questions and Answers about a Liberal Religious Alternative -Cliff Reed (Lindsey Press 2018)
As a religion which imposes no creed or dogma on its followers, Unitarianism is not easy to define. This short book introduces readers to Unitarian values and principles by means of a simple question-and-answer format, based on questions that people have actually asked when encountering Unitarians for the first time: questions such as “Where does...