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Pursuit of God, The

A Thought Provoking Devotional Author: A.W. Tozer As part of the C.S. Lewis Institute’s Fellowship program, the month of August was dedicated to pursing God and truly understanding discipleship: what it means, what we have to do, and what God does. One of our assignments was to read a chapter a day from A.W. Tozer’s short devotional, The Pursuit of God. While this tome isn’t as clearly structured as the first Tozer book I read, The Knowledge of the Holy, it still evinces the same zeal, the same mystical emotive call, half focused on theology and half focused on the pure [...]

2023-11-25T11:56:39-07:00November 25th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

Possessed, The

A Gothic Horror Novel That Falls Flat Author: Dorothy Daniels I’ve been wanting to read Dorothy Daniel’s The Possessed since I first saw the old school paperback with its blood red edges in my mom’s book collection as a kid. The amazing cover art promises a morbid romance, supernatural villains, and a Dark Shadows like setting. What more could you want? Well, as it turns out . . . quite a lot. Like the actual promised atmosphere. A plot. Realistic characters. A smattering of subtlety. Decent dialogue. An attempt at coherence. . . Lizabeth, a beautiful young orphan, lives with her [...]

2023-11-19T13:58:16-07:00November 19th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

Child Thief, The

The Real Peter Pan Author: Brom Peter was rejected as a child, and now he is the eternal king of an army of kids who cannot grow old. These children follow him to their deaths, believing in his dream of returning the corrupted land of Avalon to its glory, protecting the mysterious Lady, and carving out a violent foothold where they can finally find love and acceptance. These children are the Devils, and they are just as bloodthirsty as they are loyal. But that’s all about to end. Nick was a runaway, angry at his mother, devastated by his life, looking [...]

2023-11-13T12:55:51-07:00November 13th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |
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