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Review: Hot Buttons: Image Edition by Nicole O’ Dell

Some issues are so sensitive, controversial, confusing, and potentially life-changing that youth culture expert Nicole O’Dell calls them Hot Button topics. She has written the Hot Buttons books to help parents talk to their teens about hot button issues like image and many more.  How I wish I had had these books years ago! Image is an important […]

Review and Giveaway: The War on Christmas: What Was the Christmas Star?

It should come as no surprise that, as our culture drifts further from its Christian foundations, there is a lot of talk about the nature of truth, justice, morals, and reality.  The current controversy about Christmas is an important part of this enormous debate.  The War on Christmas:  Battles in Faith, Tradition, and Religious Expression […]

Review: Clear Winter Nights by Trevin Wax

When Trevin Wax wrote Clear Winter Nights: A Journey into Truth, Doubt, and What Comes After, he did not mean it to be a conventional novel, but rather “a narrative about two people engaging the big questions of life”.  Even so, the characters are so realistic and loveable and their conversations are so compelling that […]

Review: A Surprise for Lily by Kinsinger and Fisher

Each of the Lily Lapp books has been better than the previous one, and this is no exception.  I read it in one evening, resting on the couch in front of the fire, enjoying a book as cozy as my surroundings. Lily Lapp, now eleven years old, is growing up.  She still gets into trouble, […]

Review: Awakening Faith by Bell and Kelly

Imagine understanding how the ancient Christians lived and thought. Imagine spending time with them. Imagine learning about our faith from them, day after day. With Awakening Faith, all these are possible.  The authors have collected 366 writings from people like Augustine, Polycarp, Ambrose, Boniface, Gregory the Great, and even Macrina just before her martyrdom.  Each […]