by Jennie A. Harrop | Apr 1, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Religion
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Brazos Press Formats: Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | Barnes & Noble | iBooks[/alert] For those with a love of Charles Dickens’ Victorian-era novels, Gary L....
by Site Owner | Mar 25, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion
A Plan that Lacks Depth By Michele & Jamie Eliassaint WestBow Press, $22.95, 289 pages While there can be sweetness in a story of redemption, everything falls flat when moralism rise above the action, forcing characters into plastic roles that never speak of...
by Site Owner | Mar 24, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Religion, Science & Technology
Jesus and All Things Apple By Craig Detweiler Brazos Press, $17.99, 246 pages In iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives, Craig Detweiler ponders the technologies that inform who we are: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Pixar, YouTube, Twitter. How...
by Site Owner | Mar 11, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories
A Little Too Raw By Steven Schwartz Autumn House Press, $17.95, 220 pages Steven Schwartz has an undeniable ear for the rhythms of language and the inner aching of the human heart in his newest short story collection Little Raw Souls. In “Absolute Zero,” for example,...
by Site Owner | Mar 3, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Religion
A Philosophical Apologetic By Nathan Schneider University of California Press, $34.95, 430 pages Nathan Schneider employs philosophy, physics, calculus, history, and sheer human curiosity in his search for God in God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients...