reviews

Is God Relevant in Our Time? Authors: Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale In Jesus Among Secular Gods Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale examine the Christian worldview and how it differs from what we hear every day: science disproves God, all truths are valid, God/religion is a nice panacea that makes life palatable to the masses, living is only as valid as the pleasure you can wrestle from it, morality is relative, and so on. Across eight chapters, Ravi and Vitale trade authorship back and forth, looking at each claim: its good points and where it falls short, combining science, philosophy, academic [...]

A Traditional Rom-Com with Purse Wine and Frenemies Author: Emily Henry January Andrews has made it through life on the wings of happy endings; she has always believed in them, and through her growing up years, as her mother fought cancer, her parent’s love made even the hard times somehow happy. But when January finds out the sudden truth about her parent’s life at her father’s funeral, her belief in happily-ever-after evaporates. She’ll never believe in love again, which is a problem because her publisher is expecting another of her hot-off-the-presses romance novels. The deadline is terrifyingly near and with this [...]

Hear No Evil Author: Tim Lebbon In her room, Ally hides from her annoying brother and flicks the TV to a channel showing a live expedition in Moldova. An ancient and vast network of caves, unmapped and never before explored, is being opened, and Ally can see the tension between the scientists, watch their nervous anticipation, and share their dream of exploration. Across the country, in a hotel room, her father, Huw, turns to the same station, idly watching and missing his family, thinking about his job and his client. And then, they pour out, released from the caves, and they [...]