Fiction
One Step Away – Eric Wilson
Thousands of years ago, a wager in heaven centered on the soul of one man. Virtually overnight, the man blessed with plenty saw his life crumble before his eyes as wealth, health, and even family […]
Articles by Josh Olds
Beyond the Page
Enemies and Allies: A Conversation with Joel Rosenberg
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https://media.blubrry.com/lifeisstory/s3.amazonaws.com/LiS/JoelRosenbergEnemiesAndAllies.mp3Podcast (beyond-the-page): Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSFor well over a decade now, Joel Rosenberg has had his finger on the pulse of the Middle East. His debut novel The Last […]
Non-Fiction
Enemies and Allies – Joel Rosenberg
For twenty years, Joel Rosenberg has had his finger on the pulse of the Middle East. His fiction career began with The Last Jihad where the opening scene depicts terrorists hijacking an airplane—published nine months […]
Non-Fiction
The Politics of the Cross – Daniel Williams
Growing up, I don’t think I was never explicitly told that Republicans were Christians and Democrats weren’t, but that was certainly the impression I received as a child of the 1990s. It was something I […]
Non-Fiction
Good Works – Keith Wasserman and Christine Pohl
Our churches have lost a sense of community. The majority of church attenders do so for a couple hours a month and never really invest themselves into the community of the church. At other times, […]
Non-Fiction
I Am Not Your Enemy – Michael McRay
We are a divided and divisive people. I’m writing this review amid the United States’ tumultuous exit from Afghanistan and the day after an ISIS suicide bomber killed a dozen US military personnel and several […]
Fiction
Duplex – Orson Scott Card
My experience with Orson Scott Card up to this point had only been through his classic Ender’s Game saga. I wasn’t sure what to expect from him outside of that genre and those characters and […]
Non-Fiction
The Coming Race Wars – William Pannell
The Coming Race Wars was first published in 1993. It is an indictment on the United States of America that it can be republished nearly thirty years later with minimal adaptation. In many ways, we’ve […]
Non-Fiction
Emerging Gender Identities – Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky
Gender identity has become one of the most contentious social issues in contemporary culture. Unfortunately, the conversation that tends to exist about the issue is always in the realm of hyperbolic extreme. They’re conversations that […]
Non-Fiction
Affirming – Sally Gary
In 2013, Sally Gary published a memoir entitled Loves God, Likes Girls. It focused a lot on her early life, her conservative upbringing in the Church of Christ, and the tension she held between reconciling […]