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Nine Perfect Strangers

Wellness Resorts Gone Wrong Author: Liane Moriarty Nine strangers are looking for ten restorative days in a fancy health resort. The illnesses range from the physical to the emotional. Each person is seeking an easy fix, a bit of pampering, a rest. Frances Welty, a-has-been romance novelist recuperating from an embarrassing Internet boyfriend scam and a bad editorial review, is seeking some time at the resort to fix her broken heart, make some friends, and get a little TLC. Dropping a few pounds and getting over this menopause thing – with all of its accompanying indignities – would be nice too. [...]

2023-11-05T21:36:24-07:00November 5th, 2023|Tags: , , , |

Dr. Thorne

Matters of the Heart Author: Anthony Trollope When you think of Anothony Trollope, you think of a good old drawing room drama. Ladies in pluming skirts, hiding behand fans, talking scandal as piano forte plays delicately in the background and the butler shuffles around, taking in all that aristocratic gossip. And what makes a better scandal than rejecting the status quo and marrying for love, not money! Frank Gresham will be the heir to the Greshamsbury estate – a foundering money pit effectively ruined by Frank’s well-meaning father and extravagant mother. To save the estate, Frank HAS to marry money. The [...]

2023-11-04T09:50:39-07:00November 4th, 2023|Tags: , , , |

Beginnings: Understanding How We Experience the New Birth

Conversion as a Process Author: Stephen Smallman As part of the C.S. Lewis Institute’s Fellowship program, the month of July was dedicated to understanding true conversion and what it is. One of our assigned readings was Stephen Smallman’s Beginnings: Understanding How We Experience the New Birth. Throughout Beginnings, Smallman examines the misnomer of conversion as a singular event: a once and done experience. Traditionally, in Christian culture, conversion is seen as a literal come-to-Jesus moment, usually a grand event, brought on by some sort of action, such as saying a prayer. But, Smallman argues, this is selling conversion short. Conversion is [...]

2023-11-01T15:44:01-07:00November 1st, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |
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