Philip Pullman’s War on God

This past week I read Philip Pullman’s trilogy, “His Dark Materials,” which consists of his books, The Golden Compass (aka Northern Lights), The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. The Golden Compass is an engaging fantasy adventure that quickly hooks the reader and carries him along, leaving him eager to read the rest of the…

David Pendleton’s Journey

Several friend have written asking me to comment on a recent news report about David Pendleton, a former state legislator in Hawaii who converted from Seventh-day Adventism to Roman Catholicism at Easter. I, too, had left the Adventist church (though at a younger age), and was received into the Catholic Church in 1992. But I…