Book Reviews

When I was pregnant with my second baby, I decided that I would try to read the Bible through in a year.  I found a One Year Bible and got into the habit of reading while I ate breakfast.  That was in 2004, and I have read through my Bible every year since then.  I’ve …

I really want to like Wanda Brunstetter’s books.  I really, really do.  So I keep trying them!  My latest attempt is the new mini-book Goodbye to Yesterday.  In this first of 6 installments, the reader is introduced to Luke and Meredith Stoltzfus.  Luke recently lost his job as a carpenter, and the young couple is …

I just finished reading Albert Mohler‘s The Conviction to Lead:  25 Principles for Leadership that Matters.  This book is a must-read for anyone who aspires to leadership in any organization.  Mohler’s principles are founded on the premise that, to lead, a leader must have a passion for his/her organization.  It is that passion and conviction …

In this latest novel in Margaret Brownley‘s The Brides of Last Chance Series, Molly Hatfield arrives in Cactus Patch, Arizona, with her disabled little brother, Donny.  For Molly, Cactus Patch is her last hope after losing almost everything in a fire.  She has to find a way to support herself and her brother, and her …

I’ve been studying women and the Bible since my graduate school days at NAU–way back in 1999.  🙂  At the time, I found myself struggling with the feminist ideas taught in my courses, along with the conceptions of Christianity that went along with it.  The perspective that women are held back by patriarchal society–and that …