politics

Books at Center of Evolution Battle

by Donald L. Hughes on 03/10/2010

Books have an important role to play when it comes to affecting the way people think about controversial topics. They have the power to change the way people think, and that can change lives.

In November of 2009, Ray Comfort, a New Zealand Christian author who now lives in the U.S.,  gave away 170,000 copies of On the Origin of Species to students at 100 of America’s top universities. This special edition of the book has a foreword by Comfort that explains the Christian position on the evolution controversy. [Read More]

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Publisher Bows to Islamic “Political Correctness”

by Donald L. Hughes on 04/27/2009

jihadMuslims have not beat the West on the battlefield, but they are thumping us in the ideological wars.

The New Criterion, said to be America’s leading review of the arts and intellectual life, has chronicled the recent saga of George Thomas Kurian, who was contracted by Wiley-Blackwell , the distinguished British academic publisher (Wiley and Sons in the U.S.), to produce a multi-volume Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization. He completed the work with the help of nearly 400 contributors, but after it was printed and distributed, it was recalled to be “pulped” by Wiley-Blackwell. [Read More]

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