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Breaking the fast for one post before the New Year: Primal, Mark Batterson I wanted to hate it. I really did. Just a page or two into the introduction, and I was convinced Primal wouldn’t be any different than any other book criticizing modern Christians for being “lukewarm.” I knew it was going to rant [...]

How do you review The Bible? Really, you can’t review the text itself. You can review how it was written and the style, but not the content. Thomas Nelson released The [Expanded] Bible this summer with praise from John Ortberg. Based off the New Century Version [NCV], The [Expanded] Bible takes the original text of [...]

Malcolm Gladwell tells stories. And he tells stories well. Lots and lots of stories. That is the premise of his writing style, drawing the reader along his journey to discovery. Discovery, in this case, is the phenomenon of outliers, those people who fit into a demographic mold unlike the majority of the population. Gladwell tells [...]

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Originally published at: In college, one of my friends thought a jazz book was misplaced in the spirituality section of the local bookstore. He bought it, liked it, passed it around his apartment and the rest of campus. None of us realized how big this book would be. That was Blue Like Jazz in 2003, [...]

Originally published at: The American frontier was often a dark and scary place for those back home. If you weren’t adventurous enough to head out west on your own, you sat back home and worried about those who did. Tony Jones tells a story of a mother and father grief-stricken at the unknown: their daughter [...]