Cultish
“With a glimmer of willingness, language can do so much to squash independent thinking, obscure truths, encourage confirmation bias, and emotionally charge experiences such that no other way of life seems possible.”
The It Girl
“She has never felt more haunted— by what happened to April, and by what she, Hannah, may have done to an innocent man. And now haunted too by what she’s doing to her old friends.”
House of Hollow
“Dark, dangerous things happened around the Hollow sisters.”
Why God Makes Sense in a World that Doesn’t
“Which is telling us a better story— a story that better accounts for the strangeness, the incompleteness, the brokenness, and the beauty of our world?”
A Biblical Case Against Theistic Evolution
Can we just agree to disagree or do differing views on evolution actually matter?
6 Books I Read in June
See which book I’m spotlighting this month!
P.S. I Still Love You
“I want to have it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all.”
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
“There are scars on my heart, just as thick, as disfiguring as those on my face. I know they’re there. I hope some undamaged tissue remains, a patch through which love can come in and flow out. I hope.”
Why We Argue and How to Stop
If you’re like me, you never argue so this book is pointless… heh…
Breathless
“There were even more ways to die on the mountain than she had imagined..”
Start Without Me
Is this book funny or not?
A Forgery of Roses
“Everything is a calculated move in this house. Nothing is as it seems. Ever.”
9 Books I Read in May
A few winners, a loser, and one in between!
Books & Board Games
If you liked that book… try this board game!
Two Nights in Lisbon
Just wow…
Talking Back to Purity Culture
“Too often, purity rhetoric hyperfocuses on what we should and shouldn’t do instead of what Christ has already done. It neglects the gospel and places personal striving above the finished work of Christ.”
Redeeming Our Thinking about History
“God rules history. Moreover, he has a plan for history, a plan that encompasses its overall shape and all the details.”
Stay Awake
“You’re afraid of what you do in your sleep…”
The Lost Apothecary
“This is my work, my grief to bottle up and dispense.”
The Fruitful Life
“These godly qualities are not something we can manufacture, take pride in, or lay claim to as self-generated. Rather, they are the work of God, and their source is God alone.”