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Transforming Discipleship

Discipleship by Popularity? Author: Greg Ogden In Transforming Discipleship author Greg Ogden sells his own program, focused on creating a “micro-group” of Christians who effectively disciple one another to grow in faith and Christlikeness. Honestly, this isn’t the type of book or subject that I would normally pick up, but it was assigned reading for the C.S. Lewis Fellowship year-one program. This program has encouraged and challenged me to deepen my own faith, and it has even pushed me outside of my hermit’s comfort zone. So, I approached this book with an open mind, if not a burning desire. It starts [...]

Frances Carden2024-05-25T21:18:52-07:00May 25th, 2024|Tags: book review, Christian, disciple, read, reading|

Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal

A Repentance Season that Leads to Renewal Author: Esau McCaulley When I first transitioned from a protestant background to a catholic church (Episcopalian and then Anglican), I was dismayed by the concept of Lent. It seemed like a dour season, one meant to strip the joy out of Christianity. Was this just another reincarnation of the hell-fire-and-brimstone protestant teaching that I found so one-dimensional, a teaching that while necessary can be (and is) certainly overdone, leaving out everything else about Christianity, especially the joy? Imagine my surprise then when I ended up liking Lent, appreciating its deep sense of introspection, its [...]

Frances Carden2024-05-18T17:49:21-07:00May 18th, 2024|Tags: book review, Christian, Christianity, lent, read, reading|

Head Like a Hole

Buy It for the Cover, Stay for the Explosive Story Author: Andrew Van Wey I picked up Head Like a Hole because I loved the cover. Usually, the adage of “don’t judge a book by its cover” is a dire warning: the wrapping doesn’t indicate the quality of the present. But in this case, it really did. Head Like a Hole was a weird, wonderful, gruesome story that expertly combined horror and mystery, with just a little bit of sci-fi, into the perfect mélange of edge-of-your-seat Lovecraftian insanity. The story is difficult to describe (thus the terrible online synopsis). It’s [...]

Frances Carden2024-05-11T07:44:01-07:00May 11th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|