by Susan Barnes | 19 Aug 2015 | Book Reviews
A Doubter’s Guide to the Bible is written for those who have doubts about the truth of the Biblical account. However as someone who trusts the Bible, I also benefitted from the teaching in this book. Dickson presents an overview of the Bible touching on those...
by Susan Barnes | 27 Nov 2013 | Book Reviews
John Dickson makes the comment in the introduction of his book, Hearing her Voice that there will be those who will be disappointed that his book doesn’t go far enough in allowing women to hold leadership positions in all areas of the Christian Church. While...
by Susan Barnes | 13 Nov 2013 | Book Reviews
Humilitas is the Latin word for humility. John Dickson began studying the origins of humility in Western ethical thought through a research project he was involved with at Macquarie University. He was intrigued to discover that prior to the growth of Christianity...
by Susan Barnes | 12 Aug 2012 | Book Reviews>Life Changing Books
John Dickson is a historian and a Christian apologist who has written many books. He is also an Anglican minister and popular speaker, and in case you hadn’t notice, I’m a big fan! (I have previously reviewed many of his other books here, here, here and here). In this...
by Susan Barnes | 30 May 2012 | Book Reviews
In his book, A Sneaking Suspicion, Dickson addresses some of the issues in our society which get a lot of media attention but often the arguments in favour or against are not well thought through. (For example sex, beauty, science, other religions, death.) Sneaking...
by Susan Barnes | 6 May 2012 | Book Reviews
Following on from my last post…I found John Dickson’s title for his book, If I were God I’d make myself clearer, very intriguing. It seems a logical point that surely God would want us to be clear about his existence. Yet Dickson points out that in...
