Jeffrey Overstreet now has three very imaginative fantasy in his Auralia’s Colors series. Here’s a review of the third one.
High Praise for Overstreet's "Raven's Ladder"
Jeffrey Overstreet now has three very imaginative fantasy in his Auralia’s Colors series. Here’s a review of the third one.
Has a ‘Caesar’ Overtaken Your Lord?
From Trevin Wax’s Holy Subversion (new from Crossway):
. . . Christians are turning the world upside down! They are acting against the Caesars of our day.
They are disobeying the Caesar of Success by praying for their competitors, making career choices that put family over finances, and seeking to be above reproach in their business practices.
They are dethroning the Caesar of Money by giving away their possessions and downsizing. . . .
Has a 'Caesar' Overtaken Your Lord?
From Trevin Wax’s Holy Subversion (new from Crossway):
. . . Christians are turning the world upside down! They are acting against the Caesars of our day.
They are disobeying the Caesar of Success by praying for their competitors, making career choices that put family over finances, and seeking to be above reproach in their business practices.
They are dethroning the Caesar of Money by giving away their possessions and downsizing. . . .
If You Repeat a Lie Enough Often . . .
If the lie is big, and you repeat it often, then it must be confined to a few points. . . . Wait, what did Goebbels actually say?
What a Small World
Growing up in the wake of Walker Percy and John Updike
Dangerous cult?
While opening a carton of books from Zondervan Publishing today in the bookstore, a question occurred to me:
“Who was this man Zonderv, and what were his teachings? And who are his followers, these Zondervans? What do they really believe?”
Inquiring minds want to know.
A Christian View on Five Great Cities
Caleb Land reviews Douglas Wilson’s book Five Cities that Ruled the World. Wilson is a reformed pastor in Idaho who has written many books and taken many strong stands, so you will find he has many opponents.
The New Conversational
Conversational Reading is now at conversationalreading.com. Accept no imitations.
Scandinavian Mysteries
Scandinavian crime fiction is popular these days, for example, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Laura Miller writes about it for the Wall Street Journal.
“Counterintuitive as it may seem, the Scandinavian brand of moroseness can be soothing in hard times. Its roots lie deep in the ancient, pagan literature of the region, preserved in sagas that were first written down in medieval Iceland. The sagas, created by and for people who led supremely difficult lives, are about love, death and war, like all great stories, but above all, they’re about fate.”