Fiction
Skin – Ted Dekker
I was about thirty pages into Skin the very first time I read it—the day it released—when I began to have this sense of déjà vu. We’ve been here before, haven’t we? A group of […]
Month: April 2022
Fiction
House – Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti
It was a collaboration between the established trailblazer nearing the end of his career and the young, idealistic upstart whose recent work followed in his footsteps. Theoretically, it was a no-brainer: put the top two […]
Beyond the Page
Attached to God: A Conversation with Krispin Mayfield
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https://media.blubrry.com/lifeisstory/s3.amazonaws.com/LiS/KrispinMayfieldAttachedToGod.mp3Podcast (beyond-the-page): Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSAttachment science is both revolutionary and simple. Basically, it states that humans were created for relationships, or, as attachment science founder John Bowlby called […]
Non-Fiction
Disarmed: The Radical Life and Legacy of Michael “MJ” Sharp – Marshall V. King
A couple of years ago, I left the church I had been working at with the intention of traveling the country and finding what God had next for our family. I had worked at a […]
Children's Books
The Case for Heaven Young Reader’s Edition – Lee Strobel
What will heaven be like? The cultural concept of heaven is usually envisioned as a walled city in the clouds where ethereal figures wear halos and play the harp. That’s…not a very appealing picture. Of […]
Academic
Counseling Women: Biblical Wisdom for Life’s Battles – Kristin L. Kellen
Kristin L. Kellen is a counselor and an assistant professor of counseling at a seminary, and she wrote this book for both lay and professional Christian counselors. It is academic but very readable, and is […]
Non-Fiction
Aggressively Happy: A Realist’s Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life – Joy Marie Clarkson
This book is full of encouragement for people who struggle to reconcile the joy and the suffering that they experience personally and see in the world around them. Joy Marie Clarkson provides a stirring defense […]
Fiction
Forward Me Back to You – Mitali Perkins
This book released a few years ago, but I never got around to reading it, partly because I knew it dealt with heavy topics. I finally read it this past week, and loved it so […]
Fiction
Malicious Intent – Lynn H. Blackburn
I will admit, I sat on Malicious Intent by Lynn H. Blackburn for an extended period of time before I finally opened it. I had too many romantic suspense authors already in my stack; I didn’t need more. […]
Academic
Tradition and Apocalypse – David Bentley Hart
I’ve been told for some time that I needed to read David Bentley Hart. Not knowing quite where to start (though his That All Shall Be Saved is on my shelf), I ended up beginning […]