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Editor’s note: I asked a gal who is raising teens to review Kenda Dean’s Almost Christian book. Jennifer’s review folos. Almost Christian, by Kenda Creasy Dean Reviewed by Jennifer Pursley Kenda Creasy Dean’s Almost Christian is a response to a longitudinal study by Christian Smith and Melinda Denton at Notre Dame University. Dean helped with [...]
Editor’s note: This is the second installment on the eschatology posts that will be running every Friday. For a look back at last week’s post, click here. The Landscaper I had not planned on this particular interview but it came about as so many do, through a friend of a friend. On a thunderous [...]
It is the tradition of those visiting the Vietnam Memorial Wall to leave behind a gift or rememberance at the panel of the name of the loved one. This year I took along a photo of my nephew David and his new sons. These are my father’s first great-grandchildren. David, who is my father’s namesake, [...]
Saturday afternoon late, the doorbell rang. Ever since the kids moved off our doorbell doesn’t ring much. Tim and I lead pretty quite lives with our books and our demonic dog. Oh. Sure. Halloween is an exception but on the day-to-day basis, especially on Saturdays, the house is pretty quiet. I was engrossed in Tom [...]
Editor’s note: This is the first Friday installment about the End Times. We’ll be visiting this subject every Friday for awhile. The end of an age is pressing in upon us, and I honestly don’t know whether I am of the Pre-Tribulation Sect or the Post-Tribulation Sect. I don’t know if I believe in the [...]
The voting is over but the blame-game and the debates continue. I thought it would be fun to take a look back at another era – 1810. At that time James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, was president. Madison, a Democrat-Republican (that was the name of the party), is credited primarily for the War [...]
River Jordan’s fourth novel – The Miracle of Mercy Land – garnered a starred review in Publishers Weekly. That will come as no surprise to the many readers who have long felt that River Jordan is a magical storyteller. Mercy Land is a journalist who works for the Bay City newspaper, alongside Doc, the editor-in-chief. [...]
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