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Featured Author: Serena Woods
27 Oct 2009Grace is for Sinners The Review
Reading Serena Woods’ Grace is for Sinners is similar to what I imagine it would be like to be a priest in the confessional, listening to someone not only confess their sin, but pour out their hurt, their fear, and their frustration — all the inner secrets we so often [...]
Featured Author: Jason Boyett
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15 Oct 2009Jason Boyett’s books were recommended to me by a friend who knows that I find the snarky and sarcastic hysterical. That said, I wasn’t convinced that I would want to read what sounded like mini-reference books. When I saw the cover art I figured anything that resembles The Urban Dictionary (the greatest reference book of [...]
Featured Author: Jason Harper
13 Oct 2009Jesus Loves You The Review
Jesus Loves You, This I Know takes as its title a phrase that should have deep, soul-changing, heart-melting significance, but which instead has often become, in the words of the authors, “a trite, overused Christian cliche… a casual exchange in passing.” This is the problem authors Craig Gross and Jason Harper [...]
Featured Author: Craig Gross
23 Aug 2009Jesus Loves You, This I Know The Review
Jesus Loves You, This I Know takes as its title a phrase that should have deep, soul-changing, heart-melting significance, but which instead has often become, in the words of the authors, “a trite, overused Christian cliche… a casual exchange in passing.” This is the problem authors Craig Gross [...]
A Conversation with Craig Gross
23 Aug 2009I recently had the opportunity to talk with Craig Gross, author and founder of XXXChurch.com, about his new book Jesus Loves You…This I know.
NW: First of all, I love the book. I love the challenge to go and be the Church. The examples you and Jason give are inspiring.
CG: Thanks. We hope that it blesses [...]
Featured Author: Andy Andrews
18 Aug 2009The Noticer The Review
The “noticer” in Andy Andrews’ novel of the same title is an old man of indeterminate ethnicity, known to the narrator as “Jones,” to the local Hispanic population as “Garcia,” and to the Asians as “Chen.” He appears and disappears at unpredictable yet opportune times, dispensing wisdom and genuine concern to those [...]
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Featured Author: Matthew Paul Turner
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2 Aug 2009Churched The Review
At once poignant and hysterically funny, Matthew Paul Turner’s Churched chronicles his childhood in a strictly fundamentalist church — the kind of church where the pastor dictates from the pulpit what kind of haircut is appropriate. Whether it’s watching the Sunday School teacher set fire to Barbie to show the kids what Hell [...]
Featured Author: Kary Oberbrunner
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20 Jul 2009The Fine Line The Review
“Relevance” has become a buzzword in Christian circles. So much so that its definition has become a bit fuzzy. In The Fine Line, Kary Oberbrunner recalls attending a pastor’s conference where a speaker encouraged attendees to make services more relevant by hanging draperies, lighting candles, and turning on a fog machine. [...]
Featured Author: Anne Jackson
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15 Jul 2009Mad Church Disease The Review
Before Anne Jackson wrote Mad Church Disease, she created an anonymous online survey and a website, madchurchdisease.com, to find out if burnout in ministry was a serious problem. Within days after the site was launched, she had already received so many responses that her provider shut down her email account because [...]
Featured Author: Shawn Wood
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7 Jul 2009Wasabi Gospel by Shawn Wood The Review
I bet I have read the gospels about 15 million times in the 15 years that I have been a Christian. Over the years the familiar red letters of your bible can become all to familiar and comforting if your not careful. Glossing over the hard truths of the [...]
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Featured Author: Tom Davis
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24 Jun 2009
SCARED: A NOVEL ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
THE REVIEW
I finished reading Scared by Tom Davis three days ago. I am just now sitting down to write my review because the book left me speechless.
Scared, Davis’ first novel, is the story of two people from completely different worlds who meet under the most difficult [...]
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