Book and Movie Reviews

New Sabbath Books by Adventist Pastors
Noted by Bonnie Dwyer
"Those who revere Sabbath can readily make a biblical case for why they keep it but usually fall back on tradition for how they keep it," says Wibberding, who admits to doing the same.…
(July 6, 2007—reprinted from the spring 2007 issue of Spectrum magazine)

Red Books: Our Search for Ellen White
Reviewed by Adrian Zytkoskee
But why did such a remarkably titled play on this subject appear at Pacific Union College? I knew something of the tumultuous years at PUC, having been a professor there from 1975 to 1984. Was this play going to get that specific and, yes, controversial?
(April 26, 2007)

Faith Stories at the Adventist Book Center
By Bonnie Dwyer
If you already know everything that you want to know about the Twenty-Eight Fundamental Beliefs and are not in need of another vegetarian cookbook, what is there to read at the Adventist Book Center?
(November 16, 2006)

American Evangelicals: History, Politics, and Apocalyptic
By Gregory Schneider
A reader reviews six books on American Evangelicals and politics.
(July 14, 2006—reprinted from the winter 2006 issue of Spectrum magazine)

A Challenge to The Da Vinci Code
By Lawrence G. Downing
A Review of James L. Carlow and Peter Jones, Cracking Da Vinci’s Code, You’ve Read the Fiction, Now Read the Facts (Colorado Springs: Victor, 2004)
(April 25, 2006)

What Hath Disney Wrought?
By Scott Moncrieff
A Review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
(December 19, 2005)

Five on Nature
By James L. Hayward
Reviews of John McPhee, Annals of the Former World (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998); Annie Dillard, For the Time Being (New York: Knopf, 1999); Brad Leithouser, Darlington’s Fall: A Novel in Verse (New York: Knopf, 2002); Terry Tempest Williams, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert (New York: Pantheon, 2001); and Edward O. Wilson. The Future of Life (New York: Knopf, 2002)
(October 6, 2005—from the summer 2005 issue of Spectrum)

Early Adventism’s Leon Trotsky
By Benjamin McArthur
A Review of George Knight, Joseph Bates: The Real Founder of Seventh-day Adventism (Hagerstown, Md.: Review and Herald, 2004)
(July 6, 2005–From the spring 2005 issue of Spectrum)

Lights, Cameras, Acts of the Apostles
By Moriah Flahaut
A Review of Angel In Chains (Collegedale, Tenn.: Southern Adventist University Film School, 2004)
(February 17, 2005—From the winter 2005 issue of Spectrum)

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