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- No cover or mention of any form of modern paganism
- An imperfect but admirable reference work
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What I Believe
Alan Brown
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No cover or mention of any form of modern paganism.......2006-03-18
This book does a great job of covering a variety of religions today, but fails to mention - as most books in this category do -anything about the modern pagan movement. In North America alone, there are millions of practicing pagans. Our beliefs are of no less value than any other religion. I'm sirprised that Wicca isn't even covered in these books; as Wicca is officially a santified religion in the United States.
Paganism is an Earth-centered spirituality and focuses on love and reverence for All Life and our Mother Earth. It deserves recognition. How will my children feel, as we read through books on religions of the world, when even the most obscure religions are covered, but not their own?
I don't care what religion you follow or what preconceptions/misconceptions you have about paganism. For a complete and tolerant world view, it's a crime not to address this prevalent form of spirituality.
An imperfect but admirable reference work.......2001-10-02
"What I Believe: A Young Person's Guide to the Religions of the World," by Alan Brown and Andrew Langley, is overall a well written book. The book includes several chapters, each of which is dedicated to a major religious tradition: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Shinto. There is also a "catch-all" chapter which gives limited information on other traditions: the Jain faith, the Baha'i faith, Rastafarianism, etc.
The various chapters describe certain aspects of these religions: the founding figure, customs, festivals, rites of passage, holy books, etc. The articles also describe some of the diversity in each tradition. The book also has a helpful glossary at the end.
The book is not without flaws and inconsistencies. For example, the authors mention "new cults" without really explaining the term. Also, they seem to leave out any real acknowledgment of secular humanism, atheism, or religious liberalism.
Overall, the book presents a rather sanitized look at world religions. The authors write, "As long as we respect each other's beliefs and allow people to practice their religion freely, the world should be a happier place. Religion can help us to live like brothers and sisters." A nice sentiment, but often far from harsh reality. Despite its flaws, however, "What I Believe" is an admirable achievement overall.
Good effort at tackling a difficult subject and audience.......2000-12-02
What I Believe is a brightly illustrated "first-person" introduction to various world religions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Shinto, and Taoism. Each major belief system is told through the eyes of a cheerfully drawn child who compare and contrast the major tenets of their faiths. Color photographs are interspersed with drawings of the children describing what it means to be of their faith, traditions, festivals, and practices around the world. This is a simple introduction to comparative religion, and it would be nearly impossible to try to describe all of the variants of each religion, so it comes as no surprise that there are a few details that have been left out. For instance, no mention is made that while Jews remember the near-sacrifice of Abraham's son Isaac, Muslims believe that the story is told about his son Ishmael - a minor differenc to some, but obviously not to Jews and Muslims. Much of the section on Christianity focuses on Catholic and Anglican worship, describing special garments that priests wear, saints, candles, and other trappings not traditionally found in many Protestant services. Finally, there are a few editing mistakes that obscure meaning: is the Buddhist meditative cloth a thanka or a tharka? Other than those glitches, this is a nice addition to any library for children, as it seems to be written from an ecumenical point of view, encouraging children to learn about and respect one another's faith systems. From a non-expert point of view, it does not seem to contain offensive or questionable information, and the fun illustrations are an easy way to introduce children to a variety of cultural and religious practices.
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What I believe
Francois Mauriac
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Don't Be Wimpy About Your Faith.
Hey, do you know why you believe in God? Or why you call yourself a Christian? If it's because your parents told you so, that answer won't cut it with friends and others who question your beliefs.
It won't make Christianity real for you, either.
Being a Christian—living for Jesus and sharing your faith—begins with knowing what you believe. Not because you're supposed to, but because it really means something to you. It's changed your life.
So if you want to be a true believer—the kind who isn't wimpy about sharing one's faith—this book will help. It asks tough questions like "Can you prove there's a God?" or "Is the Bible true?" or "Is there really a heaven?" and gives answers that make sense.
So go ahead. Dig into these pages. You'll find good reasons for keeping the faith. And before long, you'll be sticking up for what you believe.
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Good apologetics book for teens.......2007-06-30
I used this book as a springboard for teaching an apologetics course for teens. Although not lengthy in scholarship, Ms Diaz provides just enough food for thought to encourage teens to dig deeper into the truths of the Christian faith.
Highly recommended.
Impacting, quick read.......2007-03-13
This little gem opened my world to Christian apologetics without getting me bogged down in 900 pages of textbook style detail. That comes later, if you are interested. This just primes your taste buds and lets you know that there are answers to the really challenging questions we all have about Christianity. Great stuff!
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In the first part of this inspirational CD, Louise explains how we create our experiences as a result of our accepted thinking patterns, and how we can switch them to ones of love and success. In the second part, Louise presents a healing imagery visualization full of positive statements about who we are and what we can be. Soothing and peaceful, this deeply relaxing meditation gently calms every part of our bodies and is ideal for those who are having difficulty falling asleep.
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Peaceful and Relaxing.......2007-02-07
You have to listen to this with an open-mind. It really is a great way to begin to retrain old, negative thinking.
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Translated by Constantine Popoff. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1885 edition by Elliot Stock, London.
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Eye opening.......2007-01-10
If you love learning about world religion and looking for insight into why religion today is what it is, this is a wonderful comparative literature that is truly well researched, though out, and controversial. It was a really hard book to find, banned for many years. It is the book that inspired Gandhi to become the man that changed India. It explores the personal stuggles of Tolstoy and is not his characteristic writing style. Easy to read and very understandable. It is a thought provoking and wonderful book.
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Anthony Kenny is one of the leading philosophers of the post war years. In this brilliant new book, Kenny writes honestly about his own struggles with belief, and how he now sees himself as neither a theist or an atheist. His intellectual honesty will touch the hearts and minds of countless people.
Kenny prowls at the frontiers of theology and philosophy and so commands interest from a very wide spectrum of readers - those who believe and those who find it hard to do so. In this respect his position is unique. Profoundly influenced by Wittgenstein, he has also written important books on St Thomas Aquinas and Descartes.
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A Semi-Honest Book About Religion.......2007-07-12
There are three reasons to believe that our freedom is before God: 1) We know from logic and reason that God exists. 2) Miraculous historical events show God has communicated Himself to mankind. 3) When people explain why they don't believe in God, they generally give bad reasons.
The third reason is also why we can tell our children to believe in God as if there was no question about it. Children should be told about irrational people, like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, only when they need to know. These Big Bad Wolves were educated in a tradition created by the Enlightenment and have always assumed that religion is not true. They are crackpots with whom it is impossible to have a rational conversation.
Anthony Kenny, however, was educated by the Roman Catholic Church. He was a priest before he became a professor of philosophy and a nonbeliever. Is it possible to have a rational conversation with him? Does he give better reasons for not believing than the Big Bad Wolves?
The truth of the neo-Darwinian evolution of human beings is an article of faith in the Enlightenment religion, and the biggest difference between them and Professor Kenny can be found in his chapter titled "Human Beings." The following quote from Kenny casts doubt on the absolute truth of evolution. If human beings have something animals do not have at all, humans could not have evolved from animals:
"What is peculiar to our species is the capacity for thought and behavior of the complicated and symbolic kinds that constitute the linguistic, social, moral, economic, scientific, cultural and other characteristic activities of human beings in society. The mind is a capacity, not an activity: it is the capacity to acquire intellectual abilities of which the most important is the mastery of language. The will, in contrast with animal desire, is the capacity to pursue goals that only language-users can formulate." (p. 69)
I am not sure I understand the distinction between "capacity" and "activity." Whatever he means, his comments no more shed light on the question "What is a human being?" than saying human beings are rational animals. The indefinability of the mind and mystery of a human being is why humans are embodied spirits or spirited bodies, at least to people with whom a rational conversation is possible. This does not necessarily mean human beings did not evolve from animals because it is possible that animals possess the potential of having intellects and wills. It is also possible that human beings possess spiritual souls and animals do not, making the evolution of human beings impossible. Regardless of these possibilities, people who deny that human beings are embodied spirits are obsessively and irrationally in love with the methodology of science. Kenny does not say that human beings are embodied spirits in so many words, but he comes close:
"Human beings and their brains are physical objects; their minds are not, because they are capacities. This does not mean they are spirits. A round peg's ability to fit into a round hole is not a physical object like the round peg itself, but no one will suggest that is it is a spirit. It is not any adherence to dualism, but a simple concern for conceptual clarity, that makes me insist that a mind is not a physical object and does not have a length and a breadth." (p. 71)
In this chapter, Kenny takes the trouble to refute Cartesian dualism--the idea that human beings are pure spirits and ride their bodies like CEOs ride their desks. Cartesian dualism is often criticized by materialists and atheists when they discuss religion because it is a straw man. Kenny believes in the mystery, indefinability, and spirituality of man, but downplays his views in order, I suppose, to make the book marketable. Marketing is the delivery of goods and services to the consumer and effective marketing requires a decision about the product's market position.
We can also learn about religion from Kenny, something that never happens when you read the writings of those who feel mankind would be better off without religion. The following quote is from the chapter titled "Religion":
"In my view, faith is not a virtue, but a vice, unless certain conditions are fulfilled. One is that the existence of God can be rationally established without appeal to faith. Accepting something as a matter of faith is taking God's word for its truth: but one cannot take God's word for it that He exists." (p. 59)
Kenny has concluded that the existence of God cannot be proven. The most logically rigorous proof is the cosmological argument, which is based on the metaphysical concepts of being and causality. In effect, Kenny is saying the cosmological argument is refutable. Since the Roman Catholic Church teaches that we can prove God exists, this would mean there is a non-theological and non-biblical argument against the Roman Catholic Church's claim to infallibility.
Kenny's uncle was the editor of the English Jerusalem Bible and a teacher at the seminary Kenny went to in Liverpool. When he graduated at the age of 18, he enrolled at his uncle's alma mater, the Gregorian University in Rome. He rubbed shoulders with Hans Kung, and was taught by Bernard Lonergan and Frederick Copleston, to repeat some names he mentions in his autobiography (The Path From Rome, Oxford University Press, 1986). When he was ordained he took the anti-modernist oath, but declined to take it again for his doctorate. In the following quote he explains why:
"In the 1950s, candidates for a doctorate in Papal universities had to swear to a document called the anti-modernist oath, which contained the statement that it was possible to prove the existence of God. Though I had submitted a dissertation and passed the examinations, I was unwilling to proceed to the degree because I did not wish to take this oath. If God's existence could be known, I very much doubted whether it would be known by way of proof. Since then I have studied arguments for the existence of God presented by many philosophers, and I have not yet found a convincing one." (p. 31)
Maybe Kenny thinks you can't prove God exists because you can't prove that the universe makes sense and can be understood. This is a valid objection, notwithstanding the success we have had in science by making the assumption of the intelligibility of the universe. However, we can use this objection to refute atheists who claim they are being rational and believe the universe is not absurd.
In the chapter titled "Why I Am Not an Atheist," Kenny discusses three cosmological changes or transformations: the development of language in human beings, the origin of life, and the big bang. Since there is no good natural explanation for these changes, he argues, you can't exclude the possibility of a supernatural explanation. Concerning the origin of language he says:
"If we reflect on the social and conventional nature of language, we find something odd in the idea that language may have evolved because of the advantages possessed by language users over non-language users. It seems as absurd as the idea that banks may have evolved because those born with an innate cheque-writing ability were better off than those born without it." (p. 25)
This is why common sense and intuition leads non-philosophers to be theists and not atheists. Since human beings are embodied spirits, the existence of humans cannot be explained by the biology of reproduction and evolution. A supernatural being must have created human beings. Kenny argues in favor of a third philosophical option known as agnosticism.
The Lonely Crowd is a landmark sociological analysis that identifies the personality types called inner-directed and outer-directed. Atheists are obviously inner-directed types because they don't care what other people think. Agnostics are outer-directed types, and feel more comfortable saying they don't know whether or not God exists since so many people believe in God and believe their purpose in life is to serve God. I think this is why some people are atheists and others are agnostics.
Concerning the origin of the universe Kenny says:
"The most fundamental reason in favor of postulating an extra-cosmic agency of any kind is surely the need to explain the origin of the universe itself... It is not the existence of the universe that calls for explanation, but its coming into existence." (p. 28)
Kenny is referring to the big bang, which was an extremely dense fireball of elementary particles that began our universe. Kenny agrees with the following metaphysical proposition: A being that begins to exist at some point in time needs a cause. If you assume that the big bang was a change from nothingness to a being or many beings, then the existence of an "extra-cosmic" agency can be inferred. However, if the big bang was preceded by a vacuum, this inference is not necessary since a vacuum may not be nothingness. A vacuum may be a real being or beings, not a mental being or an idea. A vacuum may have as much status in being as a photon or elementary particle.
A physicists will not find the idea that a vacuum exists strange because it was once thought that a vacuum consisted of a sea of negative energy electrons and that a positron was a hole in this sea. A physicists is also aware of the reality of kinetic energy which can be transformed into as many electron-positron pairs as you want as long as E = mc2.
His third argument against atheism comes from the origin of life itself, which cannot be explained by natural selection:
"This is not to say that neo-Darwinians do not offer explanations of the origin of life; of course they do, but they are explanations of a radically different kind. All such explanations try to explain life as produced by the chance interaction of non-living materials and forces subject to purely physical laws." (p. 26)
A metaphysical approach is to rank the cosmological transformations in order of the magnitude of the change in the properties of the different modes of being. The following is my personal ranking:
1. animals to human beings
2. large molecules to single-celled organisms
3. vacuum to big bang
4. single-celled organisms to animals
5. elementary particles to atoms
Concerning the smallest change, modern field theory enables physicists to derive the properties of atoms from the properties of elementary particles. However, the theories are only approximations and are not entirely satisfactory for a number of reasons.
In the two-part chapter titled "Why I Am Not a Theist," Kenny reviews the proofs of God's existence offered by various philosophers and claims to refute them. Kenny fails to mention the idea that a finite being needs a cause but an infinite being does not, which is why an infinite being must exist. This is the crux of the cosmological argument.
A refutation of the cosmological argument that does not consider the contingency of a finite being and the self-sufficiency of an infinite being is not a refutation at all. The cosmological proof, I can call it now, can be analyzed further with the metaphysical concepts of essence and existence. I'll begin an explanation of these ideas with a quote from Kenny:
"For what is meant by 'necessary being'? Surely, a being in whom essence involves existence, that is to say, a being whose existence can be established by the ontological argument. (p. 37)
To me the ontological argument--God exists because the concept of exists?-- makes no sense, however, it does make sense to say that God is a necessary or self-sufficient being. That God's essence "involves" God's existence is not clear or sure at all. According to Thomas Aquinas (1225 to 1274), a finite being is a metaphysical composition of two correlative metaphysical principles: essence and existence. The essence of a being is not added on to the existence, but acts to limit the existence of the finite being.
This analysis explains why finite beings are different from one another and gives a reason why finite beings need a cause. Finite beings need a cause because they are compositions and could not have composed themselves. Finite beings need a cause, also, because they could not have limited themselves. This analysis also means that an infinite being is a being that does not have an essence. An infinite being is a pure act of existence. "I am who am" is the way God explained it to Moses in Exodus.
Continuing the above quote above from "Religion":
"Another is that the historical events that are claimed to constitute the divine revelation must be independently established as historically certain--as having the same certainty, say, as that Charles I was beheaded in London, or that Cicero was once consul in Rome. The events that are pointed to as founding charters for the world's great religions can surely not claim this degree of certainty." (p. 60)
The historical event that is "founding charter" of Christianity is the resurrection of Jesus. The Resurrection is an historical event that can't be explained in terms of any other historical event because of its impact on history itself. Nonbelievers consider the Resurrection to be a religious experience that the followers of Jesus had. The faith response of Christians to the Resurrection is to believe that Jesus entered into a new life with God and that if you follow Jesus the same thing can happen to you. Believers in non-Christian religions are responding in faith to the Resurrection too because they are aware of it and hope for salvation.
Kenny acknowledges the historical accuracy of the New Testament:
"I do not share the extreme scepticism of many scholars, including Christian scholars, about the historical value of the Gospels. For instance, that Jesus at his last meal took bread and wine and said something like 'this is my body, this is my blood' seems to me to be as likely to be true as anything that is narrated in the records of the early Roman Empire. With regard to the Acts of the Apostles, I have long been amused to note that Catholic biblical scholars often appear less ready to accept them as broadly historical than are atheists colleagues in ancient history departments." (p. 58)
What happened to the two benchmarks of historical accuracy: the beheading of Charles I and the consulship of Cicero? What is the point of benchmarks if you don't use them? What religious historical events does Kenny have in mind when he says they are not certain? Is he thinking of miracles performed by Moses and recorded in Exodus?
I went to a college run by Jesuits in the early 1960s. During a theology class one day, apropos of nothing while writing on the chalkboard, the theology professor turned to the class and said, "Does anyone here seriously believe Lazarus rose from the dead? It is just a story." Did Kenny lose his faith and I didn't lose mine because I had better theology teachers?
Why doesn't Kenny just admit that he lost his faith? Why does he give us this hogwash about Charles I and Cicero? My guess is that the market for an honest book about religion by a nonbeliever is pretty small. There is a market for anti-religion books and pro-religion books, but who wants to buy a book from an ex-priest saying I wish I could believe.
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What I Believe
Jacques Ellul , and
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What Would I Believe if I Didn't Believe Anything? is a guidebook for spiritual orphans that shows how they can "doubt their way home" by embracing their doubts and asking the hard questions as a meaningful path toward genuine faith. The author helps readers value their own questions and learn to talk about spiritual matters in fresh, non-religious language. Rather than handing down doctrines "from above," Groff invites readers to look at life "from below," exploring experiences of daily living. He helps the reader to find the grace in the grit of everyday life, seeking analogies of faith in film and literature, psychology and science, poetry and arts, music and sports. Drawing primarily from the well of his Christian experience, Groff also incorporates insights from the world's primal myths and major religions.
Fifty reflection exercises make it ideal for group use with journeyers of varied backgrounds for campuses, prisons, communal residences, religious communities and work places.
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Tired of being in your head?.......2004-01-18
Many of the books out there are intellectual arguments. Those are important but that is not what a spiritual orphan needs. While this book has an intellectual foundation,it speaks to the heart and one's experience. This handbook doesn't offer answers but invites the reader to look deeply within oneself and honor one's journey. Kent Groff models this with his own personal reflections. The great thing about this book is that it enables the reader to journey with others. It is also easy to read with the lift-outs.
What Would I Believe If I Didn't Believe Anything?.......2004-01-17
Dr. Groff offers many images and stories which invite us to journey deeper to the place where we meet and are met by one greater than ourselves. He gently and playfully invites the agnostic to risk believing and the believer to risk questioning. He seems to trust that the richest place to walk in life is that thin line between faith and doubt (where we can learn from our the great faith traditions and contemporary culture without dismissing either). As a thirty-something pastor who struggles to believe much of what i've been taught and who continues to find great wisdom and grace in and through my doubts, i appreciate Dr. Groff's commitment to speaking to people like me, who thirst for meaning, but don't often find it where we are told to find it; and who often stumble upon it in the strangest of places. This is a book you'll want to read, return to, and journal with.
What I Would Believe if I Didn't Believe Anything?.......2004-01-03
I've read the manuscript for Kent's book. For the first time in any book I've ever read about spirituality, I felt connected. Finally someone (Kent) understands my experience with the Church.
I love God, but have always struggled with the institutional Church, which has seemed far removed from where I "live, move, and have my being." I have been a spiritual orphan and Kent's book normalized my feelings in a way that the institutional Church has never been willing to name or to even address. If anyone has ever felt like a spiritual orphan, this is THE BOOK for them to buy. John Sivley
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Beyond "I Do": What Christians Believe About Marriage
Douglas J. Brouwer
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In today's shifting landscape of attitudes toward marriage, it is important to have firm ground on which to stand. Just what do Christians believe about marriage? Douglas Brouwer explores what the Bible says about married life and crafts a fresh, up-to-date understanding of marriage from a Christian point of view.
Beyond offering a contemporary theology of marriage, Brouwer addresses such perennially difficult subjects as power within a relationship, the role of love, the importance of spiritual compatibility, what divorce means, and what the Bible says about being single. He ends by drawing on more than twenty years of experience as a church pastor to offer "10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me about Marriage (Not That I Would Have Listened)."
Packed with real-life stories, this easy-to-read book will be helpful to anyone wanting to reflect on marriage in the context of the Christian faith.
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Alright.......2003-09-24
This book is has been both helpful and not so helful. The benefits are that there are many little insights and experiences the pastor informs the reader that can be very helpful in thoughts about marriage. However, the writer writes this book on a theological approach to marriage and this is where, I, being a conservative christian cannot agree on every issue. He does try to be objective on issues on marriage by giving some good background and history to everything related to marriage but his conclusions and scriptural interpretation is biased towards his church or modern times. Again there are many good things in this book that I never knew about in approaching marriage, but I needed some discernment and careful review when the writer gave his exegesis and application of scripture. I guess this caused me to have an even more closer study on what scripture has to say about marriage.
ideal resource.......2002-06-15
This book would make an ideal resource for pastors and churches who want to help their members understand how Christians ought to think about marriage, and based on that, prepare for or work on their own marriages. By presenting complex ideas plainly and clearly, the author helpfully sorts out the confusing notions about marriage that float around in our heads, and offers a vision for what marriage can be. This vision is based on a broad and careful study of the Bible (not just proof-texting, thankfully) as well as research on successful marriages and observations from the author's experience as a pastor. I found the explorations of the covenantal and sacramental views of marriage, the history of Christian attitudes about marriages, and the brief history of romantic love especially helpful. The list of "Ten Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me about Marriage" would make an excellent set of talking points for any engaged couple. The author is Protestant, but so respectful of other parts of the Christian family that I think this book could be very helpful even to pastors and parishioners who may not agree on every point.
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How powerful is integrity? Just ask minister-turned-statesman, Mike Huckabee. As lieutenant governor of Arkansas in 1996, he was publicly cast between the ultimate rock and hard place when his boss, governor Jim Guy Tucker, refused to resign despite his felony convictions in the Whitewater scandal. Holding fast to the tenets of honor and faith, and his concern over what was best for the state’s people, Huckabee led the impeachment charge against his superior before a televised audience. That same day, Tucker resigned, and Huckabee would serve as governor of Arkansas until 2007, winning many national honors along the way.
Character Makes a Difference is Mike Huckabee’s biographical account of how he handled that potentially major constitutional crisis and why he believes character is the key issue in everyone’s life, “in the work you do, the candidates you vote for, the people who look to you for leadership.”
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Making a difference with proven character.......2007-09-10
Mike Huckabee has such a unique combination of quick wit, intelligence, patience and proven leadership qualities. He has, as Governor of Arkansas, a predominately Democrat state, been able to work through political differences and actually MAKE A DIFFERENCE. What an outstanding man. "Character" not only describes Gov. Huckabee's personal and political life, it inspires ALL OF US to go forth and do likewise. Please, if you don't usually read "political" books (especially from another perspective) - give this one a try. He's genuine.
Great Book, Great Author!.......2007-07-05
This a great book written by a great man and Republican Presidential Candidate! If you want to know about the great character that motivates Mike Huckabee buy this book.
He writes about his ascension from the pulpit to the Arkansas Capitol. He talks about the people who influenced him throughout his life.
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