Fiction
The Eighth Detective – Alex Pavesi
The fire behind him had finished burning. But in his soaked white suit he looked like a snowman, already starting to melt. I looked up from Alex Pavesi’s The Eighth Detective and toward my wife […]
Articles by Josh Olds
Non-Fiction
Gary Thomas – Sacred Pathways
If you understand the Church, then you know that it comes in many different forms. You have the ritual and tradition and see/smell/taste physicality of high church denominations like Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. You have […]
Academic
For God So Loved the World – ed. Walter Strickland and Dayton Hartman
One of the things that I’ve become more aware of in the past few years is that diversity and assimilation are not substitutes. Too many primarily white evangelical churches long for diversity, but what they […]
Academic
God on the Brain – Bradley Sickler
God on the Brain is a heavy read. Of course, the subtitle: What Cognitive Science Does (and Does Not) Tell Us about Faith, Human Nature, and the Divine could have told you that. As humans […]
Non-Fiction
Another Gospel – Alisa Childers
I went into Alisa Childers’ Another Gospel not knowing how I’d feel about it. In many ways, here journey mirrors mine. Grew up deeply entrenched in conservative evangelicalism. Lived in a conservative, white bubble. And […]
Non-Fiction
The House that Love Built – Sarah Jackson
My first interaction with the refugee crisis came in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where our local jail was being used as an ICE detention facility. Over a dozen asylees were released near midnight with only their clothes […]
Fiction
The Love Note – Joanna Davidson Politano
The Love Note is another amazing story from Joanna Davidson Politano. This is a story of a lost love letter, and its vast impact, bringing much chaos, but ultimately pushing each finder to be their […]
Fiction
The Key to Love – Betsy St. Amant
Just the cover of The Key to Love made me want to read it. I found the story to be slightly less appealing than the cover, but still – it’s an overall sweet story. Abrielle, (Bri) is […]
Beyond the Page
First Principles: A Conversation with John Kingston
A while back, I had John Kingston on the podcast to talk about his book American Awakening. What I didn’t know was that the day we were talking, he was getting ready to launch a […]
Podcast
Everywhere to Hide: A Conversation with Siri Mitchell
Not many authors can successfully make the switch from writing historical romance to contemporary thriller and—if I can be brutally honest—I wasn’t sure how Siri Mitchell would do. A lot of this was based in […]