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Book Review: The 5 Love Languages

The 5 Love Languages: The Secret To Love That Lasts, by Gary Chapman It is perhaps highly ironic as someone who thinks and writes about love so often that this book has escaped my voracious reading until now, even though … Continue reading

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Book Review: Aloof

Aloof: Figuring Out Life With A God Who Hides, by Tony Kriz [Note: This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/Thomas Nelson Publishers in exchange for an honest review.] Why does God keep His distance and not intervene or … Continue reading

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Book Review: Scary Close

Scary Close: Dropping The Act And Finding True Intimacy, by Donald Miller [Note: This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/Thomas Nelson Publishers in exchange for an honest review.] In several ways, this most excellent book lives up to … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Leper Of St. Giles

The Leper Of St. Giles, by Ellis Peters The fifth book [1] of the Cadfael Chronicles, this one deals with a complicated murder involving a mean-tempered old man with a long-term mistress and a squire in love with the very … Continue reading

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Book Review: St. Peter’s Fair

St. Peter’s Fair, by Ellis Peters This book, the fourth of the Cadfael Chronicles [1], serves as a good place to notice the way in which the various plots of the Cadfael series start to inform each other. This novel … Continue reading

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Why Should I Cry For You?

Nine years ago today, my father died of a heart attack at the age of 59. In the gloomy weeks and months that followed his death, I sought to find a song that captured my own intensely complicated feelings about … Continue reading

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You Know I Love You, Don’t You?

For better or worse, I’m the sort of person that cannot bear to see other people distressed without doing something about it if it is within my power to do so. I saw a young man tormenting a young woman … Continue reading

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Book Review: For The Right Reasons

For The Right Reasons: America’s Favorite Bachelor On Faith, Love, Marriage, And Why Nice Guys Finish First, by Sean Lowe with Nancy French [Note: This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/Thomas Nelson Publishers in exchange for an honest … Continue reading

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Book Review: These Gentle Wounds

These Gentle Wounds, by Helene Dunbar This book is a somewhat melodramatic tale of a young man crippled by extreme PTSD (much more serious than mine) whose life threatens to fall apart when his long-gone father decides he wants to … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Monogamy Mystery

Book Review: The Monogamy Mystery The Monogamy Mystery: Natural/Unnatural, by John I. Cline [Note: This book has been provided free of charge by the author in exchange for an honest review. The blog tour this review is a part of … Continue reading

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