This week we’re joined by Chloe Michelle Howarth, an Irishwoman whose debut novel explores the forbidden love of teenagers Lucy and Susannah in rural Ireland during the early 1990s—a time when homosexuality was criminalized in that... Read More

Ordinary Heroes of Racial Justice / A History of Christians in Action / Karen J. Johnson / IVP Academic / Hardcover $30.99 (352pp) / 978-1-5140-0998-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Karen J. Johnson’s eye-opening history book... Read More

An Interview with Jordan Chariton, Author of We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans / Ironic to think that the country’s worst drinking water crisis took place in Michigan—the... Read More

Today’s discussion of ritual and superstition got us thinking about human eccentricity. Why, for example, are we so prone to believe silly notions about crossing fingers, stepping on cracks, broken mirrors, knocking on wood, walking... Read More

Small Fires / Ronnie Turner / Orenda Books / Softcover $16.99 (300pp) / 978-1-916788-47-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Ronnie Turner’s eerie novel Small Fires, a land is ruled by tales of the devil. Suspected for... Read More

Reviewer Peter Dabbene Interviews Ned Wenlock, Author of Tsunami / Like all authors, graphic novelists are faced with decisions about how best to put their story into words: plot, characters, themes, tense, timelines, tension building,... Read More

“It seems that current immigration policy is driven by fear more than reality. For example, immigrants are being rounded up at workplaces such as farms, meat processing plants, and hotels to be sent to other countries. This aspect of... Read More

Atomic Pilgrim / How Walking Thousands of Miles for Peace Led to Uncovering Some of America’s Darkest Nuclear Secrets / James Patrick Thomas / Latah Books / Hardcover $29.95 (260pp) / 978-1-957607-37-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore... Read More