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Continue reading →: Spring 2025 Book Reviews
This Spring was a slow book month. I’m an audio book girlie who depends on long commutes to down titles quickly but most of my clients were local this quarter. Here’s the whole TWO books I read this Spring: Becoming the Pastor’s Wife Becoming the Pastor’s Wife by Beth Allison…
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Continue reading →: God Protected Me…and Others FROM Me…“The mind of a person plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps”. – Proverbs 16:9 I’m turning 40 next week. As sophomore in college, I’m often the oldest person in my class. Every time my discussion post replies include things like “After 22 years of marriage” or “my…
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Continue reading →: Imago Dei and the Good Samaritan“‘And who is my neighbor’?…” – Luke 10:29 The parable of the Good Samaritan is a Christian favorite, challenging hearers to give of themselves to those in need even when the cost is great. The popular takeaway is to not be like the first two passerbys who were entirely unhelpful,…
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Continue reading →: Deconstruction and the Other Half of JusticeWhen justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers. – Proverbs 21:15 Recently the group The New Evangelicals, which holds large influence in the deconstruction community (an online community of people in various stages of navigating their beliefs, typically following religious abuse/trauma) had a scandal…
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Continue reading →: Seven Mountain Mandate vs. the GospelWe are commissioned to seek and save the lost which cannot be done if we conceal ourselves within religious bubbles and only practice our faith in private. But there are no shortcuts. A culturally Christian hostile takeover puts this work onto these spheres of influence instead of individual believers resulting…
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Continue reading →: March 2025 Book Reviews
The Nightingale The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah follows two sisters trying to survive and follow their conscious in Germany occupied France. Understanding the Holocaust from a French perspective was eye-opening and Hannah does an incredible job at getting the reader to feel the agony of the situation. The book will…
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Continue reading →: Life At the Intersection of Faith and Mental Health“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” – Matthew 11:28 I’ve spent most of adult life in ministry. I have been a youth pastor, a small group leader, helped with two church plants, and worked in the para-church world (Christian non-profits).…
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Continue reading →: Book Reviews: Remaining 2024 Titles
Unfortunately, it’s been too long since I have updated my book reviews, so I am consolidating the remaining titles I finished in 2024 into one post instead of individual posts. Scroll to the title you are looking for for reviews and links to purchase. Strange Religion Nijay Gupta’s Strange Religion…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Star-Spangled Jesus
Star-Spangled Jesus by April Ajoy is the story of April’s own journey of separating her far right Christian nationalist beliefs from her faith in Jesus and embracing a life of faith inclusive of all. This book will challenge readers to examine the entanglement of faith and conservative politics in thoughtful,…
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Continue reading →: This Is My Story, This Is My Song.“ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.” – Ephesians 2:8-9 Living at Capital Mountain Christian Camp as six year old was like living in a fantasy world. The sprawling…
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