Fiction
Dream Town (Aloysius Arthur #3) – David Baldacci
I don’t think I’ve ever had to drag myself to the end of a David Baldacci book. I have read every single Baldacci novel. Not all of them are good, but all of them have […]
Articles by Josh Olds
Children's Books
Is God Still Awake – Sheila Walsh
In Is God Still Awake?, Sheila Walsh introduces young readers to big questions about God. Young Poppy has been learning about prayer and how it’s simply talking to God, but…is it really that simple? Can […]
Non-Fiction
Game Plan for Loss – Joe Gibbs
About eleven years ago, Joe Gibbs—former NFL coach and current NASCAR owner—wrote a book called Game Plan for Life. Sports-themed memoir/devotionals are a popular niche in the Christian market and this one proved to be […]
Favorite Authors
Finn – Stephen King
Stephen King’s latest short story is a Scribd original, making it—at least for now—exclusive to that platform. King has always played around with different publishing avenues, particularly for his short stories, and it’s interesting to […]
Non-Fiction
The Truth and the Beauty – Andrew Klavan
I don’t know that I’ve ever read a book that misrepresented itself so badly through the title and back cover synopsis. Given the lengthy and specific title, The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and […]
Academic
The Pharisees – ed. Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine
In typical Christian interpretation, if the Gospels had an overarching villain it wouldn’t be the Herods or the Caesars or even the Sanhedrin—it would be The Pharisees. Throughout history, the Pharisees have been much maligned […]
Academic
The Book of Jeremiah (NICOT) – John Goldingay
John Goldingay has long been a prolific writer and premier First Testament scholar. When he retired from professorship at Fuller Theological Seminary in 2018, he did so with the intention of focusing on writing. Since […]
Non-Fiction
Fight Like Jesus – Jason Porterfield
I read Fight Like Jesus over the course of Holy Week this year. It’s eight chapters—an introduction, then daily chapters from Palm Sunday to a combined Holy Saturday/Easter Sunday—and I read one chapter from the […]
Academic
The Samaritan Woman’s Story: Reconsidering John 4 after #ChurchToo – Caryn Reeder
I don’t remember when I first realized that the interpretation of the Samaritan woman of John 4 that I’d heard my whole life was wrong. I do remember that it was after I had been […]
Non-Fiction
God Behaving Badly – David T. Lamb
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, […]