A sincere testimony of one woman’s beliefs about good and evil told in black-and-white terms.
A Christian’s take on dependence on God.
Why is the world becoming increasingly evil, and why doesn’t God save us from inevitable destruction and Satan? Pisarich answers these questions with a sincere voice, suggesting how individuals can include God in their lives and make the world a better place. She delves into each of the Ten Commandments and explains their importance in a Christian’s life–and for a healthy society. The author also speaks about her marriage and how God ushered her through it, helping her to find the right partner. Writing about her work life, Pisarich reveals how God turned a hopeless situation into a positive one, and how God has helped her with familial relationships as well. The author acknowledges her struggle to maintain a life tied to God, and Pisarich takes this commitment incredibly seriously. There isn’t much space in her life or writing for individuality or independent thinking. God has a role in people’s daily lives, the author writes, much like a parent to a child. One must depend on God and put all worldly desires aside to have any happiness or peace. Though she does not shy away from speaking of personal experience, the book lacks a strong psychological component. It avoids any real-world complexities and ascribes all that is bad to Satan and his evil. Or, all good to God and his goodness. It might be helpful to Christians who struggle with certain issues to demonstrate how they might pose real problems for believers. Sometimes readers–even those who are spiritual–need more than an absolutist message.
A sincere testimony of one woman’s beliefs about good and evil told in black-and-white terms.Pub Date: May 13, 2009
ISBN: 978-1442121638
Page Count: -
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
A scientific argument that foresees the evolution of computer intelligence into an equivalent of God is likely to be greeted with skepticism by the majority of readers, and those who wade through this densely argued text are likely to emerge more puzzled than enlightened. Tipler (Mathematical Physics/Tulane) offers a cosmological theory he calls the Omega Point, based on the expansion of intelligent life to fill the known universe. Since the distances between habitable planets are so great, only spacegoing computers can ever hope to colonize the universe, he argues. The constant increase of computer intelligence will allow future computers not only to equal human accomplishments, but to recreate in exact detail all human beings who have ever lived. Tipler's insistence on calling this recreation a ``resurrection'' seems to be overstating his case. Similarly, a universal computer intelligence may be the sort of deity suitable to science fiction, but not one that many church-goers would find satisfactory. As tests of his theory, Tipler makes several predictions, one of which, involving the mass of the top quark, is in agreement with recently obtained experimental data, but most of which the average reader has no way to evaluate. He devotes the concluding chapters to consideration of such traditional theological questions as the problem of evil, the nature of heaven and hell, and a comparison of the Omega Point theory to the views of the world's great religions. An ``Appendix for Scientists'' provides more rigorous presentation of his arguments for those capable of following advanced mathematics. Tipler is wrestling with issues of enormous importance, but in the end his answers seem highly idiosyncratic and unlikely either to convert the skeptics or to satisfy the religious. (20 line drawings) (Quality Paperback Book Club selection; author tour)
Pub Date: Sept. 5, 1994
ISBN: 0-385-46798-2
Page Count: 432
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 1994
In traditional Jewish ritual, men are usually the primary subjects or objects: They are circumcised, they take a woman in marriage, they say kaddish over the death of a loved one. Recently, Jewish women have been plumbing the tradition in an attempt to become the subjects of their own ritual lives. Bat mitzvahs were only the beginning: In recent years, Jewish women have created new, or revised, ceremonies to mark all the joyous, and sad, transitions in their lives, from birth to becoming a parent to aging. Here, Rabbi Orenstein, who teaches at the Univ. of Judaism, provides a compendium of these rituals. Rabbi Einat Ramon explains how she and her husband, also a rabbi, wrote an egalitarian ketubbah, or marriage contract. Rabbi Amy Eilberg adapts traditional mourning ceremonies to mark the grief of a miscarriage. Barbara D. Holender offers a ceremony on turning 65. A useful resource for the paradoxically ever-evolving tradition of Judaism.
Pub Date: Oct. 1, 1994
ISBN: 1-879045-14-1
Page Count: 328
Publisher: Jewish Lights
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1994
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