
I found the autobiography by Philip Yancey, entitled, Where the Light Fell surreal, sad, and familiar.
Continue reading Where the Light Fell | by Philip YanceyI found the autobiography by Philip Yancey, entitled, Where the Light Fell surreal, sad, and familiar.
Continue reading Where the Light Fell | by Philip YanceyNews of the World is my favorite novel of the year, perhaps two or three years. It is about Captain Kidd, as an older gentleman, hired to return a 10 year old girl to her relatives for a $50 gold piece. Johanna was a captive of the Kiowa Indians for 4 years.
Continue reading News of the World | by Paulette JilesThe Source is a fictional story about the town of Makor, in northeast Israel. This account begins in 1963 at an archeological dig, which unearths fifteen artifacts from different time periods.
Continue reading The Source | by James A. MichenerKing Richard: Nixon and Watergate – an American Tragedy
by Michael Dobbs
Richard Nixon’s presidency was during an impressionable time in my life. I was in high school and college when he was President. I followed the Watergate scandal closely as it unfolded. I can still remember Nixon’s speech, to the nation the night he resigned, “for the good of the nation.”
Continue reading King Richard | Book ReviewThere is nothing like an inspiring Christian biography! Christian stories encourage a devoted faith walk. Here are five favorites in alphabetical order.
Continue reading Five Top Favorite BiographiesMy fondness for fiction, especially historical fiction, began seven years ago when I read The Help. After The Help I read The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer. Before these two books I’d read only a few fiction books.
Continue reading Five Top Favorite ReadsAmerican evangelicalism is in crisis, writes Mark Galli, former editor and chief of Christianity Today. Beginning as the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s, with George Whitefield Continue reading When Did We Start Forgetting God?
Since the death of George Floyd there has been a media frenzy over Gone with the Wind. HBO has temporarily removed the movie from its streaming because of its stereotype racism. Others have written Continue reading Gone with the Wind | Book Review
This book is a spin-off from the book Anne of Green Gables. One never knows with spin-offs if they will be any good. Have no fear. This story is a good one. It was the author’s intention to write a story that Lucy Maud Continue reading Marilla of Green Gables
Jesus>Religion: Why He is so Much Better than Trying Hard, Doing More, and Being Good Enough is the second great book I have read this year. The other book was Continue reading Jesus>Religion
Fire Road: The Napalm girl’s journey through the horrors of war to
faith, forgiveness, and peace
by Kim Phuc Phan Thi Continue reading The girl in the picture
This is a book review of The Believers, which is about the Shaker movement, that began in the east then spread to Kentucky. Since writing this book review I have realized the Shakers were fanatics and zealots. We have fanatics and zealots today in all religions but also within Christianity. I was raised in this kind of culture. Continue reading The Believers