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 […]
Articles by Josh Olds
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
From the first pages of Recovering Racists, I was transfixed by Idelette McVicker’s authenticity and vulnerability as she shared about the liberating nature of declaring oneself a recovering racist. Her book is mind-opening and paradigm-shifting […]
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 […]
Children's Books
Beginner’s Bible I Can Read: Read Through the Bible
In 1989, Mission City Press released the very first Beginner’s Bible©. They had no idea what was to come. The book was so popular that they turned to Zondervan to distribute the book, which led […]
Academic
The Destruction of the Canaanites – Charlie Trimm
In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins refers to the Old Testament God as a “vindictive bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser, a misogynistic, homophobic racist, an infanticidal, genocidal, philicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” In other words, […]
Non-Fiction
The Great Quest – Os Guinness
Only Os Guinness could write a book on discovering meaning in life and fully and comprehensively cover the topic in 120 pages. The Great Quest is an invitation to living an examined life. Dr. Guinness […]