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Review: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

  One day when I was feeling sick but couldn’t sleep anymore, I was looking for some light fiction to while away the time. Instead, I picked up The Tipping Point which turned out to be more absorbing than any work of fiction. Little things can make a big difference, bigger than you ever imagined.  […]

Review: Faith Like Potatoes

Farmer Angus Buchan, extremely stressed, moves his family from trouble in Zambia to trouble in South Africa.  Angus tries to settle onto his new farm but he struggles, falling apart and constantly losing his temper, until his sweet wife is in despair and wants to get tranquilizers for him.  Then she convinces him to attend […]

Review: Mindsight by Daniel Siegel

There’s something exciting and hopeful in the subtitle of Siegel’s book Mindsight:  The New Science of Personal Transformation.  Who doesn’t feel the need to be transformed?  (And yes, as a Christian, I believe true transformation is a gift from God, and will discuss that later.) Rather than the old forms of psychology in which a […]

Review: As One Devil to Another by Richard Platt

As a homeschooling mom of teens, I am always eager to show my children what is right.  I have not focussed so much on showing them what is wrong, and I expected As One Devil to Another by Richard Platt to help me do so.  Continuing the tradition of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, […]

Review: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Is it right and good to focus on one’s own happiness?  Or is it supremely selfish?  That’s what Gretchen Rubin wondered off and on during the year she spent on The Happiness Project.   And that is what I, a Christian, wondered when I picked up the book. For two reasons she decided that yes, such […]