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Telling a Better Story

Engaging Others with Christ Author: Joshua D. Chatraw In the western world today, the old-time apologetics just don’t fit anymore. Society does not share the same baseline assumptions, and so a rote repetition (or “dump truck” load) of facts, names, dates, places, and historical evidence leave most secular audiences glazed over, their questions unanswered and their imaginations unengaged. Winning souls is not about following a tract or 12 step program. It’s about engaging the imagination, listening, and understanding the underlying questions of our time. It’s about conversation. It’s about a story. In Telling A Better Story: How to Talk About God [...]

Frances Carden2024-11-23T15:40:13-07:00November 23rd, 2024|Tags: apologetics, book review, Christian, read, reading|

Gone to See The River Man

The Cost of Love Author: Kristopher Triana Obsession is a dark thing. What squirms out of its fetid corpse in the night is not love, but violence, desperation, depravity. This, then, is a story of obsession. One tainted by the twins of envy and jealousy, of one woman’s descent into darkness for meaning. Lori has been talking to serial killer Edmund Cox for years. It started with letters, but she has also visited him in prison a few times. The darkness in Edmund that led him to target and torture women, an evil that remains un-repented, corresponds to something in Lori’s [...]

Frances Carden2024-11-17T19:11:16-07:00November 17th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|

Immunity

Space Zombies of Bordom Author: Erin Bowman After barely escaping from space-zombies on the inhospitable planet of Achlys, Thea, Coen, and Nova have left behind a burning station and what remained of their reanimated crewmates. They did the right thing, the save-the-world thing, but each is haunted in their own way. Oh, and Thea and Coen are infected, having turned super-human instead of being zombified, thanks to their youth. They are still carriers though, and if they accidentally infect someone else, they could start the entire cycle of violence and killing again. This time, it might not stay contained either. When [...]

Frances Carden2024-11-17T19:07:33-07:00November 12th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, sci-fi, science fiction|