When Audra’s husband Kevin felt called to spread the gospel in Yemen, his wife doubted. How could she move to a dangerously anti-Christian country, live there as a Christian woman, and take her young children there? How could she, impulsive and opinionated, be missionary material? But she learned some important lessons from God: “He […]
52 Books in 52 Weeks
Review: Married Mom, Solo Parent by Carla Anne Coroy
Millions of married women raise their children alone because their husbands are not available. Whether the cause of the husband’s absence is business, the military, ministry, study, illness, or hobbies, the effect is the same: a lonely wife and mother who faces a life more challenging than she had ever imagined. Married Mom, Solo Parent: Finding […]
Review: Doing Virtuous Business by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
We’ve all heard the idea that business is about being greedy, exploiting workers, and destroying the environment. Well, Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, Yale researcher, disagrees. He has written Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise to show that successful business depends on a civilization’s ‘spiritual capital’, the sum of values and ideas, derived from […]
Review: Salt in His Blood: The Life of Michael De Ruyter
Take a feisty, uncontrollable boy (yes, kids were handfuls in the 1600’s, too!) and send him to sea with a Bible. Then watch as God uses a lifetime of experience to turn this street-fighting, steeple-climbing, wanna-be sailor into man of wisdom, godliness, and bravery. This is the story of one of the great admirals of […]
Review: Debt-Free U by Zac Bissonnette
Here are two alarming facts: Most university graduates have a huge student loan debt that negatively impacts their lives for many, many years. Most parents do not have enough money to give their children an expensive university education without seriously jeopardizing their own financial well-being. Few would argue, though, that young people should avoid college […]