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Carnival of Fear

Justice for the Damned Author: J. Robert King In Carnival l’Morai you can see your dreams and nightmares. You can see horrors and oddities, performances and putrescences, life and death. No one knows this better than Marie, the beautiful blind juggler. But, despite the roughness of this life, the performers (called freaks) have a close-knit network, a friendliness that helps them through the judgement and the days and nights filled with jeering crowds. But everything changes when Marie goes into her caravan one night only to find the walls and floor coated in blood, the sword swallower dead and impaled on [...]

2023-12-26T13:57:57-07:00December 26th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

Ruins, The

A Modern Horror Classic Author: Scott Smith Indolent, sun-soaked beach days and tequila drenched nights have lulled four tourists into a sense of enervating well-being. To spice up their adventure, they agree to accompany a newly made beach friend on a day journey to an archaeological dig in the Mexican jungle to find and retrieve his brother. Another new friend who only speaks Greek, made during the tequila nights, tags along for the journey. Spiced with a sense of adventure, the group, now six strong, struggles against vacation inertia and fights their way into the heart of the jungle and to [...]

2023-12-24T15:05:33-07:00December 24th, 2023|Tags: , , , |

Holy Spirit: Activating God’s Power in Your Life, The

A Good Introductory Guide to the Holy Spirit Author: Billy Graham As part of the C.S. Lewis Fellows Program, we were tasked to read Billy Graham’s The Holy Spirit: Activating God’s Power In Your Life as part of the September study on the Holy Spirit. I was very excited for this study, since I think Christians often ignore or sideline the Holy Spirit. Most Christians certainly don’t have a good understanding of His role, and despite what we say, we often don’t see Him as being equal with the other two members of the Trinity: God and Jesus. This was [...]

2023-12-22T21:03:07-07:00December 22nd, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |
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