VOLUME 5
Marilynne Robinson – When I was a Child, I Read Books [Excerpt]
Marilynne Robinson is one of the keynote speakers at next week’s Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College. We are very excited about her newest book, which was reviewed by David Johnson in our current print issue. We will be giving away a few copies of her book at our booth at the Festival, so if you are going to be there, stop by and enter to win a copy, or a number of other excellent new books. For those who are going to the festival (and those who are not), here is a taste of her excellent new book:
STUFF – Gail Steketee / Randy Frost [Book Trailer]
Never got a review of this intriguing book when it first came out,
but the Kindle ebook is on sale for $3.99 for the rest of April,
so it seemed like a good time to run this engaging trailer for the book.
Gandhi and the Unspeakable – James Douglass [Feature Review]
Those of us who follow Christ would do well to meditate on the teaching and example of our Lord, who for the joy set before him ultimately suffered and died out of love for his enemies. For Gandhi, the cross-shaped life and death of Jesus provided a formative example to follow, and the world was never the same because of it. But for those who have died with Christ and have been raised with him, we have more than an example to guide us; we have the gift of resurrection life itself. I pray that we, by the grace of God, would look more and more like our Jesus every day.
A Silence of Mockingbirds – Karen Spears Zacharias [Review]
I knew two things about the subject of Karen Spears Zacharias’ new book A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder going in: it was about the brutal murder of an innocent child, and this murder was preventable. This wasn’t going to be light reading, but I knew it was necessary. Especially as a former educator, I felt the weight of responsibility to see signs of abuse others had missed. This wouldn’t be pleasant, but hopefully it would be informative and in that sense, redemptive.
Cheryl Strayed – Wild [Book Trailer]
This book has been getting quite a bit of praise recently — reviewed in the NY Times Book Review, on […]
