Best-selling author and founder of the popular Turning Point television/radio ministry David Jeremiah has just released a new book aimed straight at the heart: What Are You Afraid Of? Facing Down Your Fears With Faith. In the book, Dr. Jeremiah explores the top ten fears that are holding so many of us back from the life God has called us to live and shares his wisdom gleaned from the Bible for facing down these fears with faith. We had the opportunity to... Read more
Popular author, marriage and family therapist and syndicated radio host Greg Popcak and his wife, Lisa (a family life coach and educator), have just released a new book for Catholic newlyweds called Just Married: The Catholic Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the First Five Years of Marriage. The book combines decades of experience as counselors, the latest findings in marriage research, and the wisdom of Catholic teaching to offer newlyweds a master plan for creating a strong bond in the... Read more
I couldn’t help but think of Miley Cyrus and her own troubling journey of late as I read the new young adult novel Grace Unplugged, based on the upcoming movie by the same name. Written by Melody Carlson, Grace Unplugged tells the story of the talented and pretty 18-year-old Grace Trey, growing up in a conservative Christian family and church in Alabama and living under the shadow of her once-famous rockstar-turned-Christian father Johnny Trey. Not surprisingly, Grace’s desires for a music career clash with... Read more
By Paula Huston If I had to name a role model in my life, it would have to be my Grandma Martha. Not only was she born and raised on the Minnesota family farm, homesteaded in the mid 1850’s by her Norwegian immigrant forebears, but — loving the farm life and marrying a farmer — she remained there, devoting herself primarily to the growing, preserving, and cooking of food for the rest of her 92 years. But like most women... Read more
I’ve been there. Laura Sumner Truax has been there. And I imagine you’ve been there too. That moment where everything you knew to be true about yourself and your life comes crashing down, and the world turns upside down, and you come face to face with the reality that there is no hiding from this moment, this moment so full of failure and grief. Whether it be in my — and Sumner Truax’s — case, a divorce … or perhaps for... Read more
Some of us care for a parent whose faith we have rejected. Read more
In so many ways, the supernatural has either been relegated to the world of fantasy or ignored entirely. Zombies and vampires may rule in Hollywood, but Dr. Jack Graham argues that the unseen—angels, demons, heaven, and hell—pervades our lives in real ways, though we may be unaware. Dr. Graham—pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church and founder of PowerPoint Ministries, a radio and television ministry—approaches the unseen armed with an awareness of and passion for equipping the people of God for the... Read more
When religion journalist Judith Valente traveled from her home in Chicago to the sleepy town of Atchison, Kansas to lead a retreat for busy professionals at a 150-year Benedictine monastery, she never expected to be the one schooled in the power of silence. But sitting in the choir chapel the morning before her first presentation, she was overcome by tears and the clear realization that it was she who needed the retreat; she who needed to learn how to slow down,... Read more
This month at the Patheos Book Club, we’re featuring the new book by award-winning poet Jeanne Murray Walker, The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer’s (Center Street/Hachette Book Group). Described as “one of the most elegant, tender, and intelligent memoirs of Alzheimer’s I have read,” by New York Times best-selling author Bret Lott, the book offers a deeply moving and surprisingly redemptive story of one woman’s journey of loss and discovery through the wilderness of her Mother’s passage into dementia. Jeanne... Read more
By Tim Muldoon Have you ever experienced Facebook jealousy, the kind that emerges when you see the photos or comments that your friends post? Perfect vacations, sweetly smiling children, anniversaries or other major life events? Recently my wife shared with me one of the quotes that caught her attention when reacting to this phenomenon: it’s like you are comparing your everyday life to someone else’s highlight reel. It’s the newest digital twist on the old grass-is-greener phenomenon: it’s hard to... Read more
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