Category: Book and film reviews

By Patrick Flynn
March 5, 2014

On Thursday, February 27th, The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy and the Salve Regina student film club screened the 2012 documentary “American Addict.”  The film presented shocking statistics about the overuse of prescription pills and examined the corrupt system that has produced this dangerous situation. America represents 5% of the world’s population but consumes 50% of the world’s prescription pills and the makers of the documentary had a clear mission to explain that this is no accident.

Author:  Lee Strobel

A journalist investigates the toughest objections to Christianity.

by Illustra Media

A journalist explores the scientific evidence for the existence of God. Based upon a New York Times best-seller, The Case for a Creator is a remarkable film about Lee Strobel’s journey from spiritual skepticism to a profound faith in the God who has etched his indelible signature upon every galaxy and living cell. Lee Strobel was the award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune. Following his conversion from atheism in 1981, he wrote the best-selling books The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith and The Case for a Creator.

by Illustra Media

A convincing and accurate documentary that you will be proud to share with even your most scientifically critical-minded, secular friends.

by Don  Koenig
March 21, 2009    

Christian bookstores are a good reflection of Christianity in America today. So obviously we can see by what is selling that Christianity in America is becoming increasingly apostate. The Christian bookstores and airwaves are full of deception and the people of this nation cannot discern truth because they have become biblically illiterate.

by David W Cloud

This is a well-documented examination of the influential writer C.S. Lewis, who is loved with an equal fervor by “conservative evangelicals,” hell-denying emergents, Roman Catholics, Mormons, and even some atheists. We examine Lewis’ weak conversion testimony, his heresies, and the reason why he is so popular today..

by Chris Reese
April 26, 2015

In chapter 20 of their recent book Did God Really Command Genocide? Coming to Terms with the Justice of God, Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan take up the question, “Does Religion Cause Violence?”

by Philip Bell
February 7, 2007

The title of this book immediately betrays the bias of the author – even for those unacquainted with the writings of this Professor of the (so-called) Public Understanding of Science of Oxford University, Richard Dawkins. 

Edited by William Byron Forbush

This is a book that will never die — one of the great English classics. . . . Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when “a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid,” “climbed the steep ascent of heaven, ‘mid peril, toil, and pain.”

“After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced early Protestant sentiment as the Book of Martyrs. Even in our time it is still a living force. It is more than a record of persecution. It is an arsenal of controversy, a storehouse of romance, as well as a source of edification.”

by Berit Kjos
September 23, 2013

I want to give you a brief overview of what young people are being handed today in the form of books and literature. While much of this reading material is being touted as having value and virtue, the underlying sediment is anything but that.  Pornography, cruelty, sadism, violence, and occultism leaped out at me from the pages.