When we think about church history, our minds often go back to Reformation times in Europe but, of course, God works throughout the whole world and all time. All Saints presents the harrowing recent history of persecuted Karen Christians in Myanmar (formerly Burma), as well as the miraculous story of a dying American congregation, All Saints, […]
older teens and adults
For our college age young people, and also for ourselves as homeschooling moms. (I used to tag this as ‘adult’ but my hubby told me that had the wrong connotation.)
Review: Trunk of Scrolls by Darlene Bocek
While there are many novels about Reformation times, and many church history biographies throughout the ages, we have come across very little fiction about early church history and even less about the creeds. However, Darlene Bocek’s novel Trunk of Scrolls covers the time after 526 AD, after the council of Chalcedon and during the continuing […]
Review: Martin Luther by Simonetta Carr
Very few people have had as great an influence on western civilization as Martin Luther. Yet, it wasn’t Luther himself, and those who think only about the man miss so much. Nor was Luther aiming to change civilization or even the church—no, Luther was a person gripped by the search for God’s forgiveness, whose eventual […]
Review: The Unreformed Martin Luther by Andreas Malessa
2017 is the 500th anniversary of Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses, so a plethora of books is being published about him, and I am blessed to be able to review several of them. This one is the most surprising and original. In The Unreformed Martin Luther, German journalist and theologian Andreas Malessa took an unusual approach. He […]
A Summer of Total Truth
This summer some dear ladies and I studied our way, together, through Nancy Pearcey’s Total Truth. Never have I seen so much enthusiasm about a book besides the Bible. One of the ladies was still reading the introduction when she decided to buy her agnostic father a copy. Another one related how every significant conversation […]