The Fragrance of God by Vigen Guroian –Review by Teri Hyrkas It is summer here in the US and to a gardener the quintessential image of summer is a flower garden gloriously in bloom, or a vegetable plot fully leafed out and setting fruit. For Vigen Guroian,...
Tex Sample, Blue Collar Resistance and the Politics of Jesus: Doing Ministry with Working Class Whites –Review by Landrum Leavell III Sample’s book is a fascinating study of the practices of social inequality as it pertains to church ministry. The...
Wonder Woman, featuring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, and Robin Wright Rated PG-13 –Review by Ashley Linne While it isn’t a perfect movie, Wonder Woman is officially my favorite superhero movie of all time. And for me, that’s saying a lot. There are many extremely...
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders –Review by Paula Jones In the long history of literature, very few books can claim to be at-one-and-the-same-time non-fiction, fiction, biography, history, fantasy, philosophy, horror, humor, play, and legend, but Lincoln in...
Towards Mellbreak a novel by Marie-Elsa Bragg –Review by Teri Hyrkas Marie-Elsa Bragg has written a debut novel that is so splendidly textured that it may appear to the reader like a grand piece of conceptual art. The framework of the story is the...
The Leadership Labyrinth: Negotiating the Paradoxes of Ministry Author – Judson Edwards ISBN: 1-57312-441-9 –Review by Douglas Balzer Personally, the inclusion of labyrinth in the title of this book appealed to me. A labyrinth is known to be an...