Book Review
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Written on 5 Aug, 1996 at 9:20 in
Book Review, Sex Education | Author:
Sue Careless
The Interim
Book Review:
How Could You Do That? The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience
By Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
Harper Collins
270 Pages, $31.00
Laura Schlessinger is talk radio’s hottest hostess. Nearly one million Canadians listen daily to the Dr. Laura Schlessinger Show. “Dr. Laura” as she is called, talks ethics without being academic and morals without being sanctimonious. If Geraldo’s guests glory in the garbage of their lives, Dr. Laura’s callers sort through the trash in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Jul, 1996 at 8:34 in
Abortion, Abortion statistics, Book Review | Author:
Mike Mastromatteo
Book review by Mike Mastromatteo
If anyone needed a dollars and cents argument to deflate the claims of pro-abortion blustering, the need look no further than Lawrence Roberge’s new book, The Cost of Abortion (Four Winds Press, 1995).
A specialist in biomedical science and technology, Roberge provides a concise but troubling insight into the impact of 22 years of abortion on American society. Using the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision as a starting point, Roberge cites demographic, economic and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jun, 1996 at 14:44 in
Book Review, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
David Bereford. Edited by Brad Stetson, Praeger Publishers.
The Silent Subject is a collection of fourteen essays looking at abortion from five perspectives: ethical, cultural, personal, religious and legal. All of these are interesting and informative, while some are so profoundly moving as to almost overshadow the rest of the book. The silent subject is both abortion and the unborn child itself.
Brad Stetson sets the stage with a devastating analysis of contemporary society’s malaise regarding its duty toward the unborn. This takes ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 May, 1996 at 12:48 in
Abortion, Book Review, Post-abortion and Health Care | Author:
Mike Mastromateo Mark Crutcher
Life Dynamics Inc.,
Denton, Texas 318 pages, $19.95 (US)
Reviewed by
Mike Mastromateo
Readers who get through the first chapters of Lime 5, Mark Crutcher’s provocative exposé of the abortion industry in the US. will be excused if they pause to catch a breath of fresh air.
The chapter accounts case after case of women being abused, injured, and even killed as a result of shoddy, careless work by abortionists. While it makes for some gruesome slogging, the chapter steels the reader for the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 Apr, 1996 at 9:38 in
Book Review | Author:
Since securing the Republican Party nomination, Bob Dale has been thanking Ralph Reed and his Christian Coalition for their support. Critics say Reed’s support of Dole shows he is more interested in the power of the White House than he is in his Christian revolution. Supporters counter that having the President’s ear is tantamount to completing the revolution. His biography may hold the answers.
Politically Incorrect:
The Emerging Faith Factor in American Politics
Ralph Reed Word Publishing, 1994
Reviewed by Tony Gosgnach
Although ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Apr, 1996 at 9:40 in
Book Review, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Joseph Woodard, Ph.D.
Will Catholics and Evangelicals ever agree?
Evangelicals and Catholics Together
Charles Colson and Richard John Neuhaus
Word Publishing, Dallas and Vancouver
236 pages; paperback; $14.99 US
Reviewed by Joseph Woodard, Ph.D.
It’s an old maxim that civil wars are the most vicious wars. But brothers fight not only with the greatest bitterness. They also show the greatest blindness toward “third party” threats. For 250 years after King Solomon’s death and their division into two kingdoms, Israel and Judah squabbled heedless of glowering Babylon. Four centuries later, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Apr, 1996 at 9:38 in
Book Review, Politics, Religion | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
Since securing the Republican Party nomination, Bob Dale has been thanking Ralph Reed and his Christian Coalition for their support. Critics say Reed’s support of Dole shows he is more interested in the power of the White House than he is in his Christian revolution. Supporters counter that having the President’s ear is tantamount to completing the revolution. His biography may hold the answers.
Politically Incorrect:
The Emerging Faith Factor in American Politics
Ralph Reed Word Publishing, 1994
Reviewed by Tony Gosgnach
Although ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Mar, 1996 at 9:41 in
Book Review, Sex Education | Author:
Sue Careless “Educators have been fed misinformation from higher sources who have hidden agendas. These are the facts. This is the truth about the risks.”
If you want ammunition to show the school board that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are on the rise, and chastity, not the condom, is the answer, you have it in Dr. Rosemarie Gilbert’s resource booklet, Adolescent Sexuality.
“I want to enable the lay person to say to the skeptics and the cynics. ‘It doesn’t matter what you think of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jan, 1996 at 13:10 in
Abortion, Book Review, Society & Culture | Author:
David Beresford William Brennan, 1995,
Loyola University Press, 3441 North
Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60657
William Brennan’s book Dehumanizing the Vulnerable compares the language used against seven of the most victimized groups in the modern age. These are unborn, Native Americans, African Americans, European Jews, women, enemies of socialism in Soviet Russia, and those who rely on others physically and mentally.
The similarity in oppressive language used against each of these is quite remarkable, and quite frightening. The scale of injustice and violent persecution suffered by ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Jan, 1996 at 12:05 in
Book Review, Religion | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging Against Christianity by David Limbaugh (Regnery Publishing Inc., $41.95, 416 pages). Review by Tony Gosgnach
The InterimWhen one thinks of the term "Christian persecution," visions of scenes in distant foreign lands may come to mind - Chinese Christians huddled in the dark by candlelight for house church services, or Sudanese Christians struggling for their very lives against onslaughts from a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 1995 at 11:48 in
Assisted Suicide, Book Review, Euthanasia, Issues | Author:
Sue Careless Edited by Ian Gentles
Stoddart Publishing, 1995. 131 pages, $18.95
Reviewed by Sue Careless
You are a high-profile, public advocate against euthanasia, but in your private life your own father, dying of bowel, stomach and liver cancer, begs you to assist him in suicide. What do you do?
Ian Gentles, the editor of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Current Debate recounts how, for him, euthanasia hit home. It is one of the most moving passages in a fine book.
We who take public stands on ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jun, 1995 at 11:14 in
Abortion, Book Review | Author:
David Beresford When Life and Choice Collide
Essays on Rhetoric and Abortion,
Vol. 1 To Set The Dawn Free,
Reviewed by David Beresford
Cardinal Newman once said in one of his sermons, “Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones: and could they be brought to a plain issue, they would be brought to a prompt termination.” Oxford Sermons, Epiphany, 1839.
The book When Life and Choice Collide is a collection of essays that examines the verbal controversies surrounding abortion. It is an extremely helpful book ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 1995 at 10:00 in
Book Review, Marriage and Family | Author:
Sue Careless Last September, in an article entitles “Relieving an adopted child’s anxiety,” The Interim reviewed a number of children’s books on adoption. Most were for young readers. The following will take a child into her teen years.
While many adopted children fantasize about their birth parents Princess Alice by Nina Bawden, Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1995, turns the fantasy into reality. Alice actually does have a king for a birth father but she realizes, when given the choice, that she ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1995 at 9:45 in
Abortion, Book Review | Author:
Interim Staff Contradictory statements and faulty reasoning give readers a firsthand look at how one Catholic politician justifies his support for abortion – without feeling at odds with the Church’s teaching.
I have just finished reading a book entitled Abortion, Conscience and Democracy.
The author is Mark MacGuigan, who was a Member of Parliament from 1968 to 1980. The book shows an extraordinary breadth of reading and research, far beyond anything I have achieved or ever shall. Unfortunately it is also a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 1995 at 11:52 in
Abortion, Book Review | Author:
Interim Staff Canadian Airlines. During a recent flight on this airline, one of our readers commented that before landing, the flight attendants went around collecting money for UNICEF, the UN’s notorious abortion-promoting organization. Whether or not this is a new airline policy, travelers should make sure that, before giving, they first determine where their contributions are being directed.
Mark MacGuigan. Former Canadian Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan’s book Abortion, Conscience and Democracy provides readers with an extremely vivid insight into how our Catholic politicians ... (Continue reading)
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