Author and illustrator Carly Allen-Fletcher’s passionate, articulate narrative and spectacular, vivid artwork will draw children into the breathtaking wonders of God’s creation. Allen-Fletcher points out that there is life all around us, some seen, much unseen. She explains that scientists sort different types of life (based on differences in their cells and how they live)…
How did we get to a place where citizens of the world’s leading democracy elected an anti-democratic government? That question is answered in colourful detail by Katherine Stewart in this new book. While the answer is not encouraging for those who care about good governance, it offers a deeper understanding of reality and some glimpses…
In his introduction to his graphic novel which imagines the possible stories and interactions Jesus – whom he calls Yeshua, his Hebrew name – might have had on the Emmaus Road, author Matt Mikalatos asserts that comic books and the Bible have much in common: “Pretty much every story you like comes in comic form…
For me, reading about the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands can bring about a visceral response. Recently, for example, I was seized with waves of terror while listening to an audiobook version of The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It by Nina Siegal. In…
Doing it Well is one of those books that you’ll keep thinking about long after you finish the last chapter. Throughout the book, Joanne Schreuders describes her husband Jim’s battle with cancer – and her experiences of walking alongside him in this time. After many years of prayer and care, Jim passed away in 2022….
Looking for a new nature-themed book to share with the kids in your life this summer? In this lovely children’s book, author Jordan Zwetchkenbaum shares her passion for planting and nurturing her garden for the pollinators that inhabit it and for the betterment of the earth. With a vivacious child as their guide, kids will…
N.T. Wright, a world-renowned Biblical scholar, is joining the call for Christians to actively resist trends towards autocracy and Christian nationalism and work for healthier democracies. That is the strategic significance of this book at this time. Co-author Michael Bird, a highly-respected theologian in Australia, broadens the international perspective of their analysis. Their reading of…
The title of Madeleine Jubilee Saito’s book intrigued me. What, I wondered, are visual poems? And how would poetry be used to contribute to the climate discussion? As I paged through the book the first time, I could tell it wasn’t a usual book of wordy poems. In fact, there weren’t many words at all….
Palestinian American author Safa Suleiman’s debut children’s picture book offers a heartwarming glimpse into Palestinian traditions and daily life. Based on her experience of participating for the first time in an olive harvest on her family’s ancestral grove, Suleiman relates the fictional story of young Ali, who has flown to Palestine with his Palestinian American…
Our culture seems increasingly fascinated with scammers. We see it in the popularity of true crime podcasts, in documentaries we can binge about catfishing, fallen televangelists and lavish music festivals that turn into hellish camping trips. But reporting doesn’t seem to quench our thirst for the stories of charming people ripping off the masses. We…
British thinker and podcaster Elizabeth Oldfield has given the English-speaking world a gift via her first book, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times. This title comes from a quotation by St. Irenaeus, born in Smyrna (now Izmar) in AD 130: “The glory of God is a human being fully alive.” Oldfield explores…
During the 1930’s the Netherlands was, according to Dutch statistics, a deeply religious nation. The majority of its citizens were church-going people. In The Call of Conscience, Dr. Johan Hegeman addresses difficult questions about this time in history. What happened when the rubber of all that church religiosity of the 1930s hit the dark road…
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