Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious by David Dark Before reading Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious (2016, Intervarsity Press), take some time to sweep your gaze across the cultural landscape, then get ready to launch...
Surprised By Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues by N. T. Wright Are you someone who loves surprises? Surprises can happen in all areas of life, but to those who are familiar with the Bible and have heard its stories from childhood, being surprised by...
My Name Is Lucy Barton A Novel by Elizabeth Strout My Name Is Lucy Barton (Random House 2016) by the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout, is a touching and troubling story concerning a young married woman, Lucy Barton, who lives in New York in the...
Three Books for Lent We are well into Lent, the season in the church year which focuses our attention on Jesus’ final earthly days, especially his Passion, which Wikipedia describes this way: “In Christianity, the Passion (from Late Latin: passionem...
A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War How J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918 by Joseph Loconte Author Joseph Loconte is a masterful writer. In his book A Hobbit, A Wardrobe and a Great War, Loconte...
Out of the House of Bread Satisfying Your Hunger for God with the Spiritual Disciplines by Preston Yancey Is there a fragrance that immediately brings thoughts of worshipping God to your mind? Frankincense in the air has triggered that thought in me for many years,...
