How to Spend Next Weekend: Friday evening: Read the first chapters of Genesis, with a good commentary or two at hand. Saturday: After breakfast, spend a couple of hours with Karl Giberson's Saving Darwin, then work in the garden. Catch a matinee of Ben Stein's Expelled at the multiplex. Sunday: After church, finish Saving Darwin. Conclude the day with Psalm 19: "The heavens declare the glory of God."
In this summer of the Beijing Olympics, we are awash in China books. Don't miss this one in the crowd. Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman) is an irresistible raconteur, and once you start his account of Joseph Needham and his magnum opus, Science and Civilization in China, you won't want to put it down — even as you are occasionally grinding your teeth at Winchester's ideological moves.
The late Paul Hiebert helped to transform missiology with insights drawn from anthropology, a contribution from which the church continues to benefit. This posthumously published volume, perhaps conceived as a textbook, is not the best place to begin reading Hiebert.
However, it is worth mining, not only by missiologists and missionaries, on the one hand, and adepts of the worldview conversation, on the other, but by any Christian who wants to think more deeply about what conversion to Christ entails.
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The title of the book about believing in Christ AND evolution is interesting. I haven't read the book, but it is clear that many believers in evolution, like Richard Dwakins, think that Christians or any theist is an apostate from the church of evolution. Dawkins jumps all over Kenneth Miller for being a practicing Catholic AND an evolutionary biologist. There are clearly different churches of evolution just as there are different churches of Christ. It is a mistake to think that there is only one of either. Genesis does not demand that we reject development of species over time, only that we accept that mankind is made "in the image of God" and by God. It is the image that God the Creator would assume when born into the world he created. That means that at least one line of descent had to develop toward a goal, and be an exception to the random mutation/differential survival mechanism of Darwin, which does not guarantee an intelligent species, let alone one in God's image.
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