When I first came across The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by AJ Jacobs, I have to admit I wasn’t sure what I wanted to get out of it. I felt ambivalent about the whole premise of an agnostic…
I reluctantly give Beyond Babylon: Europe’s Rise and Fall 2 stars. Why 2 stars? Well, I ended up justifying it with the fact that even a broken clock is correct twice per day. Even those on the Church of God (COG) extreme fringe are bound to get a few things…
Early one morning, in the spring of 1945, Ida Weisenbacher, a twenty-one-year-old Austrian farm girl, was woken from her sleep by a loud banging at the door. Through tired eyes she glimpsed a Nazi officer standing outside her house. ‘Get up immediately,’ he demanded. ‘Hitch up the horse and wagon;…