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Walking Him Home: Helping My Husband Die With Dignity

Walking Him Home: Helping My Husband Die With Dignity Author: Joanne Tubbs Kelly Love, like illness, is often sudden and complicated. With four failed marriages behind them, Alan and Joanne hardly expected to find each other. Joanne was divorced, living on her own for the first time, in a new job. Alan, her boss, had recently been abandoned by his wife. It was the beginning of a deep, lasting affair of the heart. It was also the beginning of a painful journey that would end on January 11, 2020, with Alan sitting in bed, drinking a cocktail of medicines designed to [...]

2024-11-25T18:02:25-07:00November 25th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

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Came Outta Nowhere, Didn't It? Author: Laurel Hightower Addy is determined to make it on her own, but the echoing condemnation of her ex-husband continues ringing through her head as she fights a snowstorm, driving alone through West Virginia toward her friends and a horror convention. She’s trying out independence, but her doubts and the worsening road conditions, plus bizarre electrical flickers throughout her car, make her unreasonably grateful for the help of a friendly trucker who gives her his CB and talks to her through the long drive. When he screams and she sees his semi go off the road [...]

2024-11-24T20:55:14-07:00November 24th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , , |

Jesus I Never Knew, The

An Intimate Look at a Subversive Savior Author: Philip Yancey In The Jesus I Never Knew author Philip Yancey invites his readers to step away from our presumptions, from the images on our Hallmark cards and the half-remembered stories of Sunday school, and see Jesus as He was to his followers: revolutionary (but not in the militaristic way they wanted or expected,) offensive, original, confusing, and dangerous. It’s far from the saccharine assumptions we often claim. It’s a refreshing although not unexpected approach. Yancey doesn’t bring anything new to the table that serious Christian’s didn’t already know, but he paints a [...]

2024-11-24T12:17:58-07:00November 24th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |
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