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Randal Keynes, 62, is the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is also the author of the book "Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution," inspiration for the new film "Creation," starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly.
The film, which opened Friday and gets a wider release Jan. 29, is a heartbreaking biopic that explores Darwin's life and loves and portrays him as more than a bit tortured by an irony in his family: Darwin (Bettany) was poised to go public on the origins of all life, including that of human beings, and his wife, Emma (Connelly), was a devout Christian who believed the only way to heaven was to trust in God.
Darwin struggled over whether to reveal his theories and how it would affect his family. His oldest daughter, Annie, who died at age 10, becomes his conscience in the film -- an apparition that helps and haunts him.
Keynes talked about the book, the film and his family's stories about Darwin.
How did you come to write the book that inspired this film?
The origin of Darwin
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Breakfast with Jesus
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Greg Laurie brings us along on a walk with Jesus and his disciples, encouraging us to see him through the eyes of his disciples in order to know him better, challenging us firsthand with the main spiritual lessons Jesus entrusted to his followers, and inspiring us with the many promises that the Savior gave to those who choose to follow him. As we walk with Jesus, hopefully we, too, will come to see Jesus as his disciples did: as a living, breathing, ever-present friend, mentor, and teacher.50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith
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Christians in the twenty-first century need encouragement and inspiration to lead lives that honor God. When faith is weak or the pressures of the world seem overwhelming, remembering the great men and women of the past can inspire us to renewed strength and purpose. Our spiritual struggles are not new, and the stories of those who have gone before us can help lead the way to our own victories. 50 People Every Christian Should Know gives a glimpse into the lives of such people as Charles H. Spurgeon, G. Campbell Morgan, A. W. Tozer, Fanny Crosby, Amy Carmichael, Jonathan Edwards, James Hudson Taylor, and many more. Combining the stories of fifty of these faithful men and women, beloved author Warren W. Wiersbe offers today's readers inspiration and encouragement in life's uncertain journey.Give It All to Him
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This story, excerpted from Next Door Savior, will become the Easter giveaway book for churches next spring--in the vein of He Did This Just for You.
In this story a woman gives her garbage of shame to the trashman; an old man hands over his heavy bag of regrets. Hundreds walk to the landfill and find it filled with trash.
Give it to me. Tomorrow. At the landfill. Will you bring it? He rubs a moist smudge from her cheek with his thumb and stands. "Friday. The landfill.
You can't live with this," he explains. "You weren't made to.
For individuals and churches, here is a beautiful story of a Savior who can take all our garbage on his shoulders--and amazingly, still stand!
In addition to this story, Max explains in easy-to-understand language what Christ did for us and how to turn in our old baggage and exchange it for new life in him.
Sisterhood of Faith: 365 Life-Changing Stories about Women Who Made a Difference
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Bound by an Unstoppable Faith...Changing Their World Forever
The forces that bind woman to woman, sister to sister, and friend to friend are among the most powerful in the world. Add to that the strength of faith, and you have a union that transcends all earthly holds. That unique bond is the sisterhood of faith.
The women whose stories are told in this book are the kind of women who wave a hand of dismissal at the obstacles in their paths. The kind who are unstoppable in their mission, stubborn in their resilience. They are women just like you. Women whose lives make a difference because they trusted in their God as they lived their lives in service to Him -- women who belong to the sisterhood of faith.
Each daily devotion features an inspirational sister of faith. In addition to Her Story, you'll find Her Service, Her Message, and My Response.
Meet women like
• Mary Kay Ash
• Lisa Beamer
• Patsy Clairmont
• Elizabeth H. Dole
• Ruth Graham Bell
• Liz Curtis Higgs
• Florence Nightingale
• Condoleezza Rice
• Dale Evans Rogers
• Joni Eareckson Tada
• Mother Teresa
• CeCe Winans
Be inspired, be challenged, believe that you, too, can change your world forever.
My 1st Book Of Christian Values
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Children want to know what to do. They want to know why we do the things we do. They are full of questions - and they need answers.As well as their amazing minds, their souls need direction and care. The foundations that are laid in their young lives will stand firm into adult life. Together with the ministry of the Holy Spirit, Christian principles will be eternal, life-changing values.
In a world where basic moral standards are ignored children need to be taught truths of humility, generosity, truthfulness, purity and respect. In this book there are thirty-one different values that show us what Jesus is like - and how we should behave. Each value has a scripture verse to learn and a brief explanation.
You don’t need to teach children to do wrong but you do need to teach them to do right - and to trust in the only one who is good, God.
Hurtado Reviews Bagnall Early Christian Books
I thought I'd post something to make Peter Head feel better (he has been ill lately), so here is an announcement of Larry Hurtado's review of Roger Bagnall Early Christian Books (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009), in Review of Biblical Literature 01/2010.
Here is an extract regarding the controversial issue of dating Christian papyri:
In support of his contention that the widely accepted number of second-century Christian papyri is too high, Bagnall points to the slightly later dates of early papyri assigned by the great papyrologist/palaeographer Eric Turner, rightly observing that Turner’s expertise was unsurpassed. (It must be noted, however, that in general Turner’s dates differ by only a few decades, e.g., dating several items to the early/mid-third century instead of the late second century.) Bagnall also offers an argument from probability. Essentially, he contends that we should expect that the percentage of Christian papyri among extant second-century papyri should correlate with the likely percentage of Christians in the population of Egypt in that time. In the absence of hard data on either the population of second-century Egypt or the number of Egyptian Christians then, Bagnall adopts Rodney Stark’s “guesstimates” of the number of Christians in the early centuries. This leads Bagnall to propose that Christians comprised as much as 1 percent of the Egyptian population only by “the late 220s” (19). So, he reasons, Christian manuscripts from the second century should comprise no more than 1 percent of the total extant, or about one or two manuscripts. Consequently, he concludes, the widely accepted view that we have as many as eight...
