Why white people dominate (part 4)
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Posted in Books | No Comments »Continued from part 1, part 2 and part 3. Some groups, like Australian Aborigines, never developed food production. But this, of course, was due entirely to where they were, rather than who they were. Australia has no plant species that are ...
Why white people dominate (part 3)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Books | 3 Comments »Continued from part 1 and part 2. So if food production is the big advantage, why did some societies develop farming, while others didn't? The answer is that in some areas of the world, food production is very easy, while in ...
Why white people dominate (part 2)
Sunday, February 8th, 2009 Posted in Books | No Comments »If you haven't read it yet, here's part 1. Why then are some New Guinean societies still using stone tools? If people are just as intelligent and imaginative wherever you go, why have some societies developed printing and parliaments, while others ...
Why white people dominate (part 1)
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Posted in Books | No Comments »Why do some people do better than others? Or, rather, why do some peoples do better than others? Why do some nations become prosperous and powerful, when others endure poverty? Or why do some nations invade, while others are ...
The Resurrection of the Son of God
Monday, February 2nd, 2009 Posted in Books | 4 Comments »Author: NT Wright Publisher: SPCK, 2003 Following the rise of modernism many theologians argued that when the first disciples spoke of Jesus’ resurrection they didn’t mean that Jesus had actually been restored to physical life with a transformed ...
Forgiveness trumps Revenge
Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Posted in Books | No Comments »A Review of Amsterdam by Ian McEwan. Having been made aware of Ian McEwan through the film adoption of his novel Atonement, I mentally shelved him away into the “popular/chick-flick/Jodi Picoult-brand” section of my mind after skimmed through the DVD ...
The Other Side of the Booth
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Books | 1 Comment »A review of: Confessions of A Reformission Rev.; Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church by Mark Driscoll. Who: Mark Driscoll, his family, associates and Mars Hill Church. What: An autobiography of Mark in as much as it relates to the main ...
