Non-Fiction
Translating Your Past – Michelle Van Loon
Our past matters. We are a product of where we come from. If life is story, then the stories of our ancestors are the prologue that sets the context for our own lives. Some of […]
Articles by Josh Olds
Non-Fiction
Behind the Lights – Helen Smallbone
You’ve probably heard of Rebecca St. James and for KING AND COUNTRY. What you may not know (or at least I didn’t) was that FK&C duo were related to Rebecca and that behind all three […]
Non-Fiction
Collateral Damage – James E. Atwood
On the day that I read this book, a man in a gas mask got on the northbound N train in Brooklyn and fired a gun 33 times, injuring 29 people. That was April 12. […]
Non-Fiction
Young, Gifted, and Black – Sheila Wise Rowe
“You are young, gifted and black” / We must begin to tell our young / There’s a world waiting for you / Yours is the quest that’s just begun. Nina Simone’s Civil Rights anthem To […]
Non-Fiction
Peanut Butter and Dragon Wings: A Mother’s Search for Grace – Shari Zook
Peanut Butter and Dragon Wings is a unique, artistic, soulful, and poignant look at parenthood (motherhood, specifically) that offers readers permission to be real about their own needs, shortcomings, struggles, and doubts. Mostly memoir, somewhat […]
Fiction
Blink of an Eye – Ted Dekker
Say…doesn’t this one seem familiar? And the answer is yes. After the success of the Circle Trilogy, Thomas Nelson immediately got to work reprinting Ted Dekker’s early novels. Most of these books just got a […]
Fiction
The Lost Books Visual Edition – Ted Dekker
Following the release of the Circle Trilogy Visual Edition, Ted Dekker and Thomas Nelson continued the graphic novel trend by releasing a graphic novel version of the first four books in the six-book Lost Books […]
Beyond the Page
Recovering Racists: A Conversation with Idelette McVicker
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https://media.blubrry.com/lifeisstory/s3.amazonaws.com/LiS/IdeletteMcVickerRecoveringRacists.mp3Podcast (beyond-the-page): Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSFrom the first pages of Recovering Racists, I was transfixed by Idelette McVicker’s authenticity and vulnerability as she shared about the liberating nature of […]
Non-Fiction
Recovering Racists – Idelette McVicker
Recovering Racists positions every person who is called White as a beneficiary of racism. And already the arguments begin—“Racism exists, but I’m not racist.” “It’s racist to say that all white people are racist.” “I […]
Non-Fiction
The Most Misunderstood Women of the Bible – Mary DeMuth
The women of Scripture are often overlooked and, even when they are considered, what we’ve been told about them isn’t always correct. Eve is given the title of first sinner, the reason all of this […]