Non-Fiction
Attached to God – Krispin Mayfield
Attached to God is the type of book you can’t grasp in one reading. I had a difficult time writing this review because every time I sat down to parse out just how I felt […]
Articles by Josh Olds
Fiction
Red (The Circle Series #2) – Ted Dekker
Black leaves the reader with one world torn apart by Shataiki. Paradise is lost on Other Earth while this earth begins to suffer the effects of the Raison Strain. Red wastes little time plunging the […]
Fiction
Starganauts – C.E. Stone
The first sentence of the back cover blurb should have told me everything I needed to know about this book: Kaity Anderson was a new bride on her wedding day. That’s right. She was a […]
Giveaways
Giveaway: Win a copy of Jesus Listens by Sarah Young
Since being published almost 20 years ago, Jesus Calling has sold 30 million copies and spawned a host of other books and devotional materials. The latest is Jesus Listens and we want to give you […]
Fiction
Black (The Circle Series #1) – Ted Dekker
It all began with a single, silenced bullet out of nowhere…And with that sentence my life changed. I don’t make that statement lightly. The Circle Trilogy served as the catalyst that threw me back into […]
Beyond the Page
Is God Still Awake? – A Conversation with Sheila Walsh
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https://media.blubrry.com/lifeisstory/s3.amazonaws.com/LiS/SheilaWalshIsGodStillAwake.mp3Podcast (beyond-the-page): Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSSinger, songwriter, Bible teacher, television host, children’s author…Sheila Walsh has done it all. And the latest thing she’s done is a beautiful children’s book […]
Non-Fiction
10 Leadership Virtues for Disruptive Times – Tom Ziglar
The times, they are a’ changing. The last couple of years has seen global disruption economically and politically as the world navigated a response to a pandemic that threatened our health and livelihood. The world […]
Beyond the Page
Leadership Virtues for Disruptive Times: A Conversation with Tom Ziglar
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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 […]
Non-Fiction
Heavy Burdens: Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church – Bridget Eileen Rivera
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. […]
Academic
A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence – David Cramer and Myles Werntz
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 […]