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David Hume, John Locke, and a Pool Table

REFORMATION BIBLE COLLEGE DIALOGUE PAPER IN A BAR WITH JOHN LOCKE AND DAVID HUME CHURCH HISTORY BY THOMAS BOOHER SANFORD, FLORIDA MARCH, 2012             I strode into the bar. It was past eleven now, and my nerves were on edge. My church history oral presentation and final paper would be due in a few short hours, and I had yet to postulate what to talk about and what to write. After pacing about in my room and realizing I was fresh out of ideas, I figured the rational thing to do was hit up the bar and have a beer or two to calm my nerves. After all, drinking seemed to always have that effect on me.             “What can I get for you?” the girl at the bar asked. As she spoke, two other men scooted in, each looking a bit disheveled and flustered with one another. They were garbed in strange clothing, like something you might expect from near the time of the Revolutionary War. Halloween wa

Night of the Living Dead Christian: A Review

Thanks to Saltriver (Tyndale House Publishers) for kindly providing a copy of  Night of the Living Dead Christian  for review on the March 2012 Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour. Night of the Living Dead Christian.                                               My Score: 3.5/5 stars.  It is a shame that I am a busy Bible college student, and that I will only be able to post once for this blog tour. I just finished this book, at 2:30 in the morning, and read it all in one sitting. I have a class at 8 AM and have much to say regarding Matt Mikalatos ' wonderfully well written, zany, comical spoof and biblical allegory,  Night of the Living Dead Christian .  Firstly, when I read Mikalatos, I do not think of C.S. Lewis. Not because Mikalatos is a poor writer, he is a very good writer, but because this style of writing is nothing like Lewis. It's comparing apples and oranges, but it seems every Christian fiction writer coming down the pipe has an endorsement