Mother Tongue: How Our Heritage Shapes Our Story By Leonard Sweet –Review by Paula Jones In Leonard Sweet’s latest offering, he offers his readers the best he has to offer––his mother. And because mothers usually have the greatest influence of anyone on...
On Living by Kerry Egan –Review by Teri Hyrkas Kerry Egan, author of On Living (10/2016, Riverhead Books), is a hospice chaplain — a profession that, in Egan’s experience, has been difficult to explain to family and friends, and seems not to be...
The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, and Monique Sternin ISBN: 978-1-4221-1066-9 –Review by Douglas Balzer In 2008 I was introduced to the concept of...
The Shack, starring Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, and Tim McGraw This film is rated PG-13. SPOILER ALERT: This review assumes the reader has seen the film or read the book. -Review by Ashley Linne The theological controversies around this film are being...
The Market as God by Harvey Cox –Review by Paula Jones Considering that I haven’t balanced a checkbook in 30 years, and that I would rather have a root canal than talk to a financial-planner about investment portfolios, it would be an understatement to...
The Book of Signs: A Crowdsourced Field Guide for Followers of Jesus by Thomas E. Ingram –Review by Teri Hyrkas If you need a midwinter pick-me-up book to read, The Book of Signs: A Crowdsourced Field Guide for Followers of Jesus (2016, Linen Press) by Thomas E....
