Josh Olds, Author at Life Is Story

Leadership Virtues for Disruptive Times: A Conversation with Tom Ziglar

February 10, 2022 Josh Olds Comments Off

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https://media.blubrry.com/lifeisstory/s3.amazonaws.com/LiS/TomZiglar10LeadershipVirtuesforDisruptiveTimes.mp3Podcast (beyond-the-page): Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSIt seems like news media everywhere are talking about “The Great Resignation.” In the wake of COVID-19 lockdowns, workers realized that they didn’t want […]

Heavy Burdens: Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church – Bridget Eileen Rivera

February 10, 2022 Josh Olds Comments Off

For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. – Matt. […]

A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence David Cramer Myles Werntz

A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence – David Cramer and Myles Werntz

February 10, 2022 Josh Olds Comments Off

Right around the time I became a pacifist—thank you to Nonviolence: The Revolutionary Way of Jesus by Preston Sprinkle for that—I began to seek out other, more academic writings on Christian nonviolence and quickly ran […]

Blink – Ted Dekker

February 9, 2022 Josh Olds 0

It first caught my eye in a bargain bin at Walmart in 2004. An inauspicious start to be sure…especially considering that it had released less than a year prior. But the story, one about a […]

Fortune – Lisa Sharon Harper

February 8, 2022 Josh Olds Comments Off

There have been a lot of books about the history of race in the United States. There are several good books that push back against the established whitewashed narrative of history that downplays the atrocities […]

Thr3e – Ted Dekker

February 5, 2022 Josh Olds 0

Kevin Parson escaped a twisted childhood and found some sense of normalcy in the outside world. He’s assimilated. Built his own life outside of the cultish confines of his stepparents’ household. Graduated from college. Is […]

The Gift – Alain Serge Dzotap and Delphine Renon

January 31, 2022 Josh Olds Comments Off

The Gift is a sweet and simple book about a dad who gives his son the gift of artistic expression. Well, it’s simpler than that—it’s just a pen—but what that pen can do opens up […]

Dinosaur Therapy – @dinosancomics (James Stewart and K Romey)

January 31, 2022 Josh Olds Comments Off

I wish I could tell you how I stumbled upon @dinosandcomics, but that happy accident has been relegated to the mysteries of time…and the Instagram algorithm. It soon became one of my favorite parts of […]

The 6th Target (Women’s Murder Club #6) – Maxine Paetro and James Patterson

January 31, 2022 Josh Olds Comments Off

I was afraid this would happen. After James Patterson and Maxine Paetro showed us what the Women’s Murder Club series could be in The 5th Horseman, they returned to the same implausibly sensational storylines with […]

The 5th Horseman (Women’s Murder Club #5) – Maxine Paetro and James Patterson

January 31, 2022 Josh Olds Comments Off

This is what I wanted out of this series. Maxine Paetro’s second Women’s Murder Club novel—the fifth overall—showcases the potential this series has always had but never lived up to. The 5th Horseman sees Lindsay […]