It was 1941 in Manila’s Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Irene Reynolds, living there with Anita the missionary aunt who adopted her when her father disappeared, worked for the Japanese censors. Usually she passed on censored parts of messages, but this one time it did not seem important. Rand Sterling, a former wealthy night club […]
52 Books in 52 Weeks
Review: The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy and Kathy Keller
Last year some of us gathered on balmy summer evenings to discuss Timothy and Kathy Keller’s The Meaning of Marriage. It was an inspiring study book and a wonderful shared experience. The Meaning of Marriage, based on Ephesians 5 and Genesis 2, discusses all aspects of marriage, from its meaning and purpose to the […]
Review: The Poetic Wonder of Isaac Watts by Douglas Bond
Even though many of his hymns are still loved and sung, Isaac Watts himself, the ‘Father of English Hymnody’ is not well known. Who was he? Why did he write his hymns? What influenced him? Is his work still important today? Douglas Bond, who attributes a deeply emotional conversion experience to Watts’ hymn ‘When […]
Review: The Financially Confident Woman
Mary Hunt, formerly a slave to credit and spending, now helps other women deal wisely with money. In The Financially Confident Woman: What You Need to Know to Take Charge of Your Money she helps women come to grips with the basics of personal finance. However, when Mary was young she’knew’ a few things about […]
Review: Michael Faraday and the Dynamo by Mabel Miller
Without the discoveries of Michael Faraday, one of the greatest scientists of all time, our lives would be unrecognizable. In fact, our civilization is firmly based on the concepts he discovered about electricity and other matters. Yet this great man, one of Einstein’s three heroes (the others were Newton and Maxwell), began life as a […]