Martin's insightful booklist

This is a summary of recent books read by Martin Davie, compiling his evaluations and the commendations of others.

In this edition:

The Noble Liar: How and Why the BBC Distorts the News to Promote a Liberal Agenda by Robin Aitken.

An important book that gives an insightful account of contemporary British society and the role of the BBC within it. It will help Christians to understand that the BBC supports and promotes a secular worldview that is hostile to orthodox Christian belief and morality. The challenge for Christians is to stand up against this worldview and to promote Christian truth as a better alternative.

Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt by Nigel Biggar.

Biggar’s book is one that deserves to be widely read, both because of its forensic dissection of the arguments put forward, including by the Church of England, for reparations for British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, and because of his salutary closing warning against the dangers of virtue signalling.

The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto by Leah Libresco Sargeant.

An important Christian contribution to the current debate in Western society about what truly makes for human flourishing. Its argument that weakness and dependence upon others is not a mark of failure, but an inextricable part of our God-given humanity is one that Christians need to hear, accept, and then pass on to others.

A Better Love by Ed Shaw (ed).

As a collection of different testimonies to this one simple fact, this book is a hugely useful resource that deserves to be read as widely as possible. The world (and the Church) needs to hear the truth that God will provide a good life for all his children, regardless of their sexuality, if only they are willing to trust him to provide all that they need.

The Hodder Bible Commentary: Exodus by Simon Vibert

A very useful mid-level commentary on Exodus that will prove extremely helpful to ministers preaching on Exodus and to ordinary lay Christians in their own private times of Bible study and in preparing material for Bible study groups. A book that will prove a good addition to anyone’s collection of Bible commentaries.

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Martin Davie is a Latimer Trust Research Fellow. He teaches at Wycliffe Hall and is the author of various books, some of them can be found here. He writes regularly on his blog Reflections of an Anglican Theologian.

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