“When Mockingbirds Sing” – Book review
This novel by Billy Coffey intrigued me. The story inside When Mockingbirds Sing is about a 9-year-old named Leah Norcross who moves with her parents to the close-knit, small town…
Read more“The Age of the Image” – Book review
I could never understand why one of my elderly friends at church was so afraid of images. He didn’t want any kind of art creeping into the church. He thought…
Read more“50 Women Every Christian Should Know” (not just every woman)
“It is not strange, my countrymen, that my voice is small,” Pandita Ramabai began when she had the audience’s full attention, “for you have never given a woman the chance…
Read moreA book on what we get right and wrong on aging and dying
“Every impulse is to fight, to die with chemo in our veins or a tube in our throats or fresh sutures in our flesh. The fact that we may be…
Read moreEverybody is scared of something
I wasn’t sure what to expect Sunday afternoon. I knew Brett Jones had been a Navy SEAL. I knew his body had been through more than I could imagine. I…
Read more“Ruby” – Book review
I appreciate the premise of this novel: If someone has had to bear abuse, the least we can do is listen. Author Cynthia Bond has one of the main characters,…
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