Category: Book Review

Just Announced: Michelle Obama’s New Book “Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice”

Just Announced: Michelle Obama’s New Book “Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice”

Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice by Michelle Obama List Price: $19.99 Online Price: $13.99 Pre-Order your copy now>> Product Details ISBN-13: 9780593139127 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group Publication date: 11/19/2019 Pages: 208 Sales rank: 8 Product dimensions: 5.68(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.56(d) What’s your journey of becoming? Based on Michelle Obama’s bestselling memoir, this gorgeous journal features an […]

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Living Up to Modernity

Modernity and History

Measuring Time, Making History by Lynn Hunt Time is the crucial ingredient in history, and yet historians rarely talk about time as such. These essays offer new insight into the development of modern conceptions of time, from the Christian dating system (BC/AD or BCE/CE) to the idea of “modernity” as a new epoch in human history. Product details Paperback: 147 […]

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5 Books You Should Read on the Prosperity Gospel.

5 Books You Should Read on the Prosperity Gospel

I entered my pastor’s office in a heated fury. I was newly converted and had suddenly realized that the prosperity gospel is a lie. I roared with rookie passion, “I’m going to do something about this prosperity-gospel deception! I’m going to take those heretics down—every last one of them!” My pastor, undeterred by my zeal, calmly sat back in his chair. […]

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Storm Rising, #1

Storm Rising, #1

Author: Ronie Kendig Title: Storm Rising, #1 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 381 Vendor: Bethany House Publication Date: 2019 Dimensions: 8.50 X 5.50 (inches) ISBN: 0764231871 ISBN-13: 9780764231872 Series: Book of the Wars Stock No: WW231875 The Book of the Wars has resurfaced! Mentioned in the pages of the Septuagint but lost to history, its pages hold secrets–and dangers–never before […]

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The Way of the Warrior- An Ancient Path to Inner Peace.

The Way of the Warrior: An Ancient Path to Inner Peace

Editorial Reviews Author: Erwin Raphael McManus Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: WaterBrook (February 26, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10: 1601429568 ISBN-13: 978-1601429568 Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches Shipping Weight: 12 ounces About the Author Erwin Raphael McManus is an iconoclast known as a cultural pioneer for his integration of creativity and spirituality. Erwin is an artist, entrepreneur, and cultural […]

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Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion.

Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion

I’m not quite done with C.C., but will finish today. It is a solid read, a fun book for a Christian to absorb and in a fun way, makes us confront today’s secular world’s skepticism about a faith that has been answering similar questions for 2000 years. I don’t claim to be a book reviewer. In fact, I usually don’t […]

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The Victory of Reason- How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success

The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success

Author: Stark, Rodney Title: The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. ISBN: 1-4000-6228-4 Length: 281 pp Published by: New York: Random House, 2005 Rodney Stark is a sociologist and historian of religion at Baylor University whose work I have much admired, especially The Rise of Christianity. He writes in a direct, no-nonsense way, perhaps […]

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The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization

The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization

Author / Artist Vishal Mangalwadi Book Format Paperback / softback Publisher Thomas Nelson (October 2012) Weight 386g Number of Pages 464 Thickness 33 mm Height 229 mm Width 152 mm ISBN 9781595555458 ISBN-10 1595555455 Product Code 4057849 Discover how the Bible became the West’s source of human rights, justice, heroism, optimism, compassion, capitalism, family and morality. In the 1960s many […]

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Humor as Virtue: Isaac Singer’s “Gimpel the Fool”.

Humor as Virtue: Isaac Singer’s “Gimpel the Fool”

by John M. Gist | One moral lesson in Singer’s narrative is this: Who am I to judge in a world where miracles have and do occur? This question helps me to “Know thyself” by realizing the world, at bottom, is a mystery where a crucified Christ rose from the dead (Video: by The Nepheshtheatre). Early on in the essay, […]

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Crushing Study Guide: God Turns Pressure into Power.

Crushing Study Guide: God Turns Pressure into Power

Review by Zachary Houle | Follow God’s process for growth and learn how you can benefit from life’s challenging

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