Honest history

BULLIES AND SAINTS:
An Honest Look at the Good and Evil
of Christian History
By John Dickson
Zondervan. 352 pages. £16.99
ISBN 978 0 310 119 371

Does religion – and Christianity in particular – represent a negative and even damaging force in the world, and so would we be better off without it?

This is a view that seems to be gaining momentum, and John Dickson sets out to give an answer by providing what he describes as an honest view of Christian history, the good and the bad.