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Christianus Sum is Shawn Pollett’s first novel. The book cleaned up at the 2009 Word Guild Awards, taking top honours for historical fiction, romance and (quite mysteriously) mystery. The novel is set in third-century Rome. It’s a love story about…Read More→
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The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers joins the growing list of good-news-meets-pop-culture-icon books which so far have included The Simpsons, Tony Soprano, Oprah, and Harry Potter. Cathleen Falsani’s book looks at all fourteen of the Coen…Read More→
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Terry Eagleton, literary critic and self-professed Marxist, admits he’s an unusual apologist for orthodox Christianity. “Why are the most unlikely people, including myself, suddenly talking about God?” he asks. This book is his plunge into the “God debate.” Eagleton dresses…Read More→
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Eduardo Galeano is a gatherer of forgotten and mislaid stories. Mirrors is his latest collection—nearly 600 tiny histories from around the globe. Galeano starts at the beginning with Hebrew, African, Babylonian, Summerian, Egyptian, Chinese and Greek myths of origins, then…Read More→
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Looking for a good story? So is Donald Miller. “Good stories don’t happen by accident,” writes Miller, the charming, self-effacing writer who made a big splash with Blue Like Jazz. His own story, he admits, has been too safe to…Read More→
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David Dark is a teacher and pop culture critic who views the media through the lens of the gospel. He shines the light of the good news on all he sees: Christendom, politics, economics, literature, movies, music. The Sacredness of…Read More→