On the Spectrum Daniel Bowman
Non-Fiction

On the Spectrum – Daniel Bowman

Dan Bowman is an author, poet, professor, husband, son, father, Christian…and autistic. While there’s opportunity to misunderstand any one of these appellations, the one most commonly—and even purposely, though often ignorantly—misunderstood is autistic. On the […]

Praying With Our Feet Lindsey Krinks
Non-Fiction

Praying With Our Feet – Lindsey Krinks

Early on in my first long-term pastorate, I had a meeting with a parishioner who lived in the adjoining neighborhood. The overwhelming majority of the church lived outside the neighborhood and the church didn’t have […]

Already Sanctified Don Payne
Academic

Already Sanctified – Don Payne

Sanctification can sometimes be reduced in popular theology to discipleship. Justification is God’s work—we are saved by grace through faith—but sanctification is sometimes perceived as “our part” of salvation. Theologian Don J. Payne tackles that […]

The Weight of Memory Shawn Smucker
Fiction

The Weight of Memory – Shawn Smucker

There is nobody else in Christian fiction who writes the kind of stories Shawn Smucker is writing. Shawn’s stories are ethereal, evocative, full of symbolism and magical realism. The narrative isn’t always straightforward. Not everything […]

The Chase Lisa Harris
Fiction

The Chase – Lisa Harris

I sat for 10 minutes prior to writing this review, attempting to find an appropriate simile for Lisa Harris’s The Chase. Whirlwind. Roller coaster. Hurricane. Nothing seems to fit! The best on which I can […]