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Book reviews

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a natural phenomenon

Daniel C Dennett

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown (Third Way)

Bury the Chains

Adam Hochschild (Third Way)

A Time to Laugh

Donald Capps (Church Times)

Dude, Where's My Country?
Michael Moore
- Third Way review
- fish.co.uk review

Good as New: A radical retelling of the scriptures
John Henson (Ship of Fools)

Y: The descent of men
Steve Jones (fish.co.uk)

Down the Highway: The life of Bob Dylan
Howard Sounes (fish.co.uk)

Sunshine on Putty
Ben Thompson (Third Way)

Planet Simpson
Chris Turner (Third Way)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon (Third Way)

Blessed Mother Theresa: Her journey into your heart
T T Mundakel (fish.co.uk)

Cross And Crescent: Responding to the challenge of Islam
Colin Chapman (fish.co.uk)

Making Sense: Philosophy behind the headlines

Julian Baggini

Bad Thoughts

Jamie Whyte

101 Philosophy Problems

Martin Cohen

Philosophy: A very short introduction

Edward Craig

101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life

Roger Pol-Droit

(fish.co.uk)

Amber
Stephan Collishaw (Third Way)

Neighbours from Hell
Frank Field (fish.co.uk)

Writing in the Dust
Rowan Williams (fish.co.uk)

Jesus Asked
Conrad Gempf

A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson (fish.co.uk)

Dead Famous
Ben Elton (fish.co.uk)

Web of Deceit
Mark Curtis (fish.co.uk)

101 Ethical Dilemmas
Martin Cohen (fish.co.uk)

The Bible: A history
Stephen Miller, Robert Huber (fish.co.uk)

The Resurrection of the Son of God: Christian origins and the question of God
N.T. Wright (Ship of Fools)

Mary Magdalene: Christianity's Hidden Goddess
Lynn Picknett (Ship of Fools)

The Faith: A history of Christianity
Brian Moynahan (Ship of Fools)

A Devil's Chaplain
Richard Dawkins (fish.co.uk)

The Gospel of Thomas
Stevan Davies (fish.co.uk)

Signs of the Times: The secret lives of twelve everyday icons

Peter Graystone (fish.co.uk)

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Jon McGregor (Ship of Fools)

In The Beginning: The story of the King James Bible
Alister McGrath (fish.co.uk)

Dreamers of Dreams
Monica Furlong (fish.co.uk)

The Gospel According to The Simpsons
Mark I Pinsky (Third Way, Woman Alive, abridged for fish.co.uk)

Brothers and Sisters
Frank Monaco (fish.co.uk)

Soul Survivor: How I survived the church
Philip Yancey (fish.co.uk)

Thinks...
David Lodge (fish.co.uk)

That Was Satire That Was
Humphrey Carpenter (Third Way)

 

Film TV and theatre reviews

Borat

Third Way

The Bloody Da Vinci Code

Third Way

fish.co.uk (exclamation marks not mine)

Munich

Third Way

The Buster Keaton Chronicles

Third Way

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

rejesus and Ship of Fools

Paul

Third Way

No Direction Home

Third Way

The Incredibles

Third Way

Popetown

Third Way

The Passion of the Christ
fish.co.uk

Gangs of New York
fish.co.uk

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Third Way

The Matrix
BBCi

Max
fish.co.uk and Third Way

Kill Bill vol. 1
fish.co.uk

see also: Kill Bill and movie violence

Matrix Reloaded
fish.co.uk

Matrix Revolutions
fish.co.uk

The Life of Brian
Ship of Fools

Circle
Eddie Izzard (Third Way)

Second Coming (TV)
fish.co.uk

 

Music reviews

No Direction Home

Bob Dylan (Third Way)

Deep Blue

Martyn Joseph (Third Way)

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
U2 (Third Way)

Whoever It Was That Brought Me Here WIll Have To Take Me Home
Martyn Joseph (fish.co.uk)

"Love and Theft"
Bob Dylan (Third Way)

Reveal
REM (Third Way)

When I was Cruel
Elvis Costello (Third Way, abridged for fish.co.uk)

Sings the Songs of Robert Burns
Eddi Reader

The Great American Novel
Martyn Joseph (fish.co.uk)

Echoes
Pink Floyd (fish.co.uk)

Faith, Folk and Anarchy
live (fish.co.uk)