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July 2014

July 21, 2014

Interview: Love Letters From The Edge

I've been talking a lot about my book lately in this space. I'm grateful for...

July 13, 2014

Two Wildly Different, Strangely Similar Books Asking One Question: Who Am I?

It's complicated. No, that's not a Facebook update on my relationship status.* Recently, I wrote...

June 2014

June 02, 2014

Interview: Marlena Graves/A Beautiful Disaster

One of the first things that struck me about Marlena Graves' writing was how very...

May 2014

May 07, 2014

Review: Broke

When I talk about money with others, the conversations tend to head in one of...

April 2014

April 23, 2014

Review: Found

One of my first experiences with a dark night of the soul period happened shortly...

March 2014

March 08, 2014

Review: Jesus Feminist

One of the benefits of being a Patheos blogger is the opportunity to participate in...

February 2014

February 09, 2014

Review: Adventure Of Ascent

Books written for those in the first half of life are frequently framed in the...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Friday’s Miscellany

Evidence of a series of storms, in the form of layered grit, can't quite mute...

January 23, 2014

Review: God’s Forever Family

Why should the devil have all the good music? If those words immediately trigger a...

January 15, 2014

Review: The Rebbe’s Army

They leave the security of family and community to travel to the ends of the...

August 2013

August 25, 2013

Review: Tent Of David

"I wish I were Jewish. I just love the Jewish people!" When some Christians learn...

August 15, 2013

Review: Letters And Life

In the novella-length essay that closes Letters and Life: On Being A Writer, On...

July 2013

July 05, 2013

Summer Reading Snapshots: What Are YOU Reading?

I am a sucker for a free book. I'll admit it. If you click on...

June 2013

June 02, 2013

Review: Fully Alive

What would it look like if we were free to live beyond gender stereotypes? Western...

May 2013

May 07, 2013

Review: Troubled Minds

I've heard some believers say that mental illness can be reduced to a mind-over-matter issue....

April 2013

April 13, 2013

Review: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Skeptic’s Guide Series)

Because we've traveled to Israel five times during the last five years as part of...

April 02, 2013

Review: Eat With Joy

My mom was a diet afficionado. It seemed that she tried on for size every...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

Review: The Hardest Thing To Do

If anyone but my friend Carole had handed me a book series like Penelope Wilcock's...

March 20, 2013

When Theology Becomes An Assault Weapon

What appears to be pristine theology, presented in user-friendly form, may in fact be a...

February 2013

February 06, 2013

Reviews: Pursuing God’s Will Together and I’ve Got Your Back

I've had some pretty terrible leaders. I've served under leaders who were burned out, on...

December 2012

December 18, 2012

Review: Booked

When I was a young parent building a library of kiddie lit for my children,...

November 2012

November 08, 2012

Review: Silence And Other Surprising Invitations Of Advent

I have yet to meet anyone who likes to wait. I usually stink at it,...

October 2012

October 08, 2012

Review: Walk With Me

Even if you've never read John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, you're probably familiar with the allegorical...

September 2012

September 20, 2012

Book review: Veneer

Only the shallow know themselves. - Oscar Wilde Wilde spoke these words more than 100...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

Some Assembly Required: A Conversation

Twenty years ago, author Anne Lamott was ambushed by her unexpected pregnancy. Her best selling...

July 16, 2012

A short stack of mini-reviews

Is there anything more inviting than a stack of books waiting TBR (to be read)?...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

Review: While He Was Away

David and Penna were inseparable, bound together by the intensity of first love. Penna is...

April 2012

April 05, 2012

Review, sort of: Still

I read Katelyn Beaty's excellent review of Lauren Winner's new book Still: Notes On A...

March 2012

March 10, 2012

Book review: No Easy Choice

A couple of decades ago, I stood along the side of a busy highway for...

January 2012

January 20, 2012

Book review: Noah Primeval

We've turned a story of a flesh-and-blood man standing apart from his own decaying culture...