Fiction
The Dutch House – Ann Patchett
I came to The Dutch House exactly the way a literary person shouldn’t. I had heard the name off Ann Patchett, but because this review site tends towards coverage of Christian fiction, my free time […]
Month: July 2020
Podcast
Daughter of Rome: A Conversation with Tessa Afshar
Biblical fiction is a difficult genre. There are so many expectations, limitations, and interpretations that an author must carefully weave through—all while imaginatively going “beyond the text” to bring the story to life. In recent […]
Non-Fiction
Living for What Really Matters: 7 Weeks in the Book of Philippians – Teresa Swanstrom Anderson
In Living for What Really Matters, Teresa Swanstrom Anderson guides women through Philippians, drawing on both Scripture and external sources to provide spiritual, social, and political context for Paul’s writing. She provides guidance on how to […]
Fiction
Draven’s Light (A Goldstone Wood Novella) – Anne Elisabeth Stengl
After Goldstone Wood came to an ignominious end, Anne Elisabeth Stengl tried her best to keep the series going. Book seven, Golden Daughter, was published under Rooglewood Press, her own independent publisher. While a full-length […]
Fiction
Fallen Star (A Short Story of Goldstone Wood) – Anne Elisabeth Stengl
I first discovered Goldstone Wood in 2013 with Dragonwitch. I immediately went back to books 1-4 (Heartless, Veiled Rose, Moonblood, and Starflower) and followed the series in lock-step until Anne Elisabeth Stengl put aside that […]
Non-Fiction
Rediscipling the White Church – David Swanson
From the title alone, I knew that Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity would be something I needed to read carefully and consider deeply. I grew up in a rural midwestern […]
Non-Fiction
Letters to a Young Congregation – Eric Peterson
Letters to a Young Congregation is the companion book to Letters to a Young Pastor. Where the latter was written by Eugene Peterson to his son, Eric, this is written from Eric to his congregation. […]
Non-Fiction
Letters to a Young Pastor – Eric Peterson & Eugene Peterson
Letter-writing is a lost art. In the age of emails and voice-to-text, it should be easier than ever, but, as a society, we’ve by-and-large put such conversations to the side and focused on more disposable […]
Fiction
Relative Silence – Carrie Stuart Parks
I had not read any of Carrie Stuart Parks’s work prior to Relative Silence. Based off this particular novel, I will be searching for more that she has written. I read Relative Silence in a […]
Podcast
Tales of Goldstone Wood Remembered: A Conversation with Sylvia Mercedes/Anne Elisabeth Stengl
When Life is Story relaunched, we did so from scratch. As the site has grown (over 15k visitors this month!), I’ve started to work on reformatting or republishing our years of archives. Almost immediately, I […]