Epinions Recent Reviews for joshg2fl

A Quick, Worthwhile Read on Bioethics

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:53:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - Gilbert Meilaender’s Bioethics: A Primer for Christians is amazing in its clarity and conciseness. In about 125 pages he moves through a dozen or so controversial bioethical topics without leaving the reader feeling that they’ve been...

"I'll Take 94 Adolf Hitlers...To Go, Please"

Fri, 9 Mar 2007 00:54:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - At one time the ending to The Boys From Brazil might have been surprising to its readers. Today it’s doubtful that anyone would read the book without being aware of its premise. For this reason I’ve decided to ignore that 1...

"Turns out I was a vampire myself...in the Devil Town"

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 00:37:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - The Devil and Daniel Johnston forces its viewers into asking the question: “What is art?”. It’s a question that you’d think could be easily answered, but it’s really quite a riddle. A movie documenting the life of Daniel...

Free Backstage Passes to See Bruce Springsteen...Courtesy of Dave Marsh

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:10:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - The 16 oversized pages of Dave Marsh’s introduction to On Tour could be one of the best things ever written about Bruce Springsteen. A year or two ago I stopped attempting to answer the “Why do you like Bruce Springsteen so...

"If I only had a dollar, for every song I've sung..."

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:15:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - “What I’m about is playin’ rock and roll….so let’s get to it.” – John Fogerty September 15, 2005. John Fogerty takes the stage of the Wiltern Theater swinging with both fists. Fogerty holds nothing back as he...

Sketches of Frank Gehry...Sydney Pollack's Journey into Architecture and the Mind of Frank Gehry

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:57:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - A movie about Frank Gehry and his architectural genius would be interesting… I have a hunch that many documentaries are conceived with similar sentences. Of course, that sentence is not enough, it’s just a basic idea that is only...

Old Testament Textual Criticism...Ellis Brotzman's Advice on Fixing the Bible's Errors

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:35:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - Textual criticism can bring about some intense reactions. For some, this is do to the sheer boredom of the task. Others view the job as unnecessary…textual errors would imply some sort of warped view of Biblical inspiration. The fact is that...

I Kissed Dating the Church Goodbye - Joshua Harris on Churchgoing

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:30:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - If you’ve been involved at all in evangelical youth ministry in the last 10 years its likely that you’ve heard of Mr. Joshua Harris. He’s the fellow who “kissed dating goodbye”, which meant he would only date/court a girl if he felt...

Robert Santelli Creates a Springsteen Scrapbook that Could Only Be Rivaled by Bruce's Mom

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:19:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - There are times in Springsteen fan-dom were it seems like nothing is going your way…those years surrounding Bruce’s first Greatest Hits album where all was quiet on the Jersey-front. Then, sensory overload kicks in and you have a year where a...

Backstreets - It's what every healthy Bruce Springsteen junkie needs

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:02:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - There are moments in life when a person realizes that they are getting ready to do some irreversible damage to their pride. Subscribing to a fan-zine is one of these moments. I mean, it’s cool to go to a rock concert. It may be annoying to...

Dallas Theological Seminary's Ramesh Richard Gives Us 7 Easy Steps to Great Sermons

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:43:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - For those who may not be aware, there are alot of books about preaching out there. As a general rule, all these preaching books share about 75% of their content. Ramesh Richard (professor of Pastoral Ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary)...

"Springsteen-Fan"...If This Collection Doesn't Contain One of Your Top-5 Bruce Albums...Then I Smell a Fraud

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:23:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - Favorite Springsteen album? This question is quite a dilemma to the Springsteen connoisseur. However, the answer can be quite revealing. For example, if someone answers Born in the USA, you can be sure that they either have a nostalgic notion...

New Dictionary of Biblical Theology...Bible Dictionaries have never been so much fun....

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:29:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - I saw someone interviewed once, and they said to skip film school and watch DVD commentaries. It sounds like decent advise. The advice came back to me as I worked my way through the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. For those folks so...

A Violent Dismembering of Bill Easum's Under-the-Radar...Perhaps Violent is an Exaggeration...."Partial Dismembering"

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:56:06 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone. -A.W. Tozer Emerging church. Church growth...

Ted Haggard, Christian Hypocrisy, and The Big Kahuna

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:08:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - Hypocrisy and Christianity seem to go hand in hand at times. And, it's hard to argue against it. A month ago, Ted Haggard's escapades into hypocrisy made their way into the news. I've just dated my review, because in a year, few will remember who he is,...

Arthur Holmes' Fact, Value, and God....Peter Kreeft says it's "an enormously helpful book"

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:11:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - In the ethics world there’s a familiar question concerning ‘is’ vs. ‘ought’. Can a person make a ‘you-ought-to-do-this’ statement while using a ‘this-is-true’ statement for motivation? Can I say “you ought not...

An Evangelical Response to Thich Nhat Hanh's Living Buddha, Living Christ

Sat, 4 Nov 2006 19:48:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - Thich Nhat Hanh is a Buddhist monk from Vietnam. His name is closely associated with Plum Village, a monastery in France. But, perhaps he’s better known for his numerous books on Buddhism. He also was a friend of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott: PG-13 Christian non-fiction...What more can you ask for?

Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:13:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - I suppose in one sense it’s refreshing to read a book like Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith. Traveling Mercies is Christian non-fiction where that “If-only-I-had-said-fudge&
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"It smells like a turd covered in burnt hair." -- Chris Parnell in Anchorman

Sat, 8 Jul 2006 01:01:33 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - Ever wondered what it would be like if 13 year olds ruled the world? You know, what if those jokers at the end of the lunch line, the guys who loved to talk about “milk, milk, lemonade”…what if they were transported to adult bodies with...

Buddha, meet Snow White...Miss White, meet Don Corleone...Don Corleone, meet Buddha

Wed, 5 Jul 2006 23:01:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - Once upon a time at a computer software company, a QA engineer received a book from the guy in charge of the Help documentation. The book was small and covered in the most perfect brown paper known to mankind. Written on this brown paper (surely...

A boy, his boat, and a tiger - Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:07:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - “Interpretation is not the art of construing but the art of construction. Interpreters do not decode poems, they make them.” – Stanley Fish (Is There a Text in This Class?) “The circus lions don’t care to know that their leader is a weakling...

Who needs David Bowie anyway?

Fri, 9 Jun 2006 00:30:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - I wonder if Walter Tevis is a religious man. I wonder that because The Man Who Fell To Earth seems to have many undertones of religion. Sure, it also has things to say about humanity and loneliness and being a stranger. But, if I had to...

Best Western of 1985 - Silverado

Tue, 6 Jun 2006 22:50:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - When I was a kid, I entered a drawing contest for a magazine. I drew a picture of a stick-figure cowboy. I remember drawing the picture, because I thought that if I could include everything cool about a cowboy they would have to pick my picture for the...

Brother Lawrence fills us in on how to handle a noisy kitchen.

Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:16:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - Recently I spent some time reading a short little book called The Practice of the Presence of God. It’s a bit of an undiscovered classic; although, perhaps not any longer because Mr. Church-culture himself, Rick Warren, mentions it in...

Those wax wings will get you every time...

Fri, 26 May 2006 00:13:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joshg2fl - Depending on how far you want to stretch things, I suppose you could say that Thomas Tryon’s The Night of the Moonbow is a retelling of the story of Icarus. Remember Icarus? His Dad made him those wax wings…Icarus got it in his...