Fiction
Nine – Rachelle Dekker
Rachelle Dekker’s writing journey has bounced through literary genres. Most authors find a genre and stick to it. Some may play around the edges, but most find that readers want to know what they’re getting […]
Year: 2020
Fiction
Becoming Us – Robin Jones Gunn
Becoming Us is a story of friendship, which is good because Emily Winslow needs friends. Moving to California was supposed to be a new start. Instead, all it had done is removed their support structure […]
Non-Fiction
The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump – ed. Ron Sider
When the 2016 presidential election kicked off, I was cautiously optimistic. After having slowly grown to appreciate some aspects of Obama’s presidency, while being critical of others, I thought that both parties had an opportunity […]
Academic
When Doctrine Divides the People of God – Rhyne Putman
Emo Philips was kind of a weird, surreal type of comedian in the 1970s and 80s. He was famous for his use of paraprosdokians—a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, […]
Non-Fiction
American Awakening – John Kingston
It has existed since long before 2016, though that’s when it began to come into full focus for most people. The great American experiment seemed to have lost its way, lost its soul. Not just […]
Fiction
Almost Home – Valerie Fraser Luesse
The year is 1944. Dolly Chandler’s last hope to same the generational family home is to turn it into a boarding house for those coming to Blackberry Springs to work in the munitions plant. They’ve […]
Non-Fiction
Murder-Bears, Moonshine, and Mayhem – Luke Harrington
If you’ve ever opened a Bible for any length of time, chances are that you’ve come across some weird stuff. Not weird stuff like this is my body, broken for you or weird like a […]
Non-Fiction
God and the Pandemic – NT Wright
As COVID-19—the sociopolitical and economic arguments—continues to ravage, philosophers and theologians have also continued to pick up their pens and write their responses to a pandemic unlike anything any of us have seen. As these […]
Non-Fiction
Writing for Life and Ministry – Brandon O’Brien
I’ve always been a “writing pastor.” In my early years, I stuck woodenly to my full manuscript. In later years, I learned to deviate from and return to the script with ease, as the situation […]
Non-Fiction
A Gentle Answer – Scott Sauls
Scott Sauls’ A Gentle Answer sets out intending to explore how we can live in a way that refuses to live into what he names as a culture where hate has become “an asset.” He […]