Book Review
The Healer
by Diane Taylor
The questioning of religious faith lies at the heart of a novel about a man who must decide whether he will submit to a God-given destiny. Christian Pendragon wasn’t looking for a life-changing event when he visited Wales. But when a...
Book Review
This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition
by Diane Taylor
Powerful poetry and prose offers accessible analyses of women’s lives, regardless of race, age, or nationality. The fourth edition of This Bridge Called My Back returns to circulation the collected artwork, essays, and poems of a...
Book Review
How Do You Pray?
by Diane Taylor
Anybody interested in prayer as a global human activity will find something to like in this collection of thoughtful, well-crafted pieces. In "How Do You Pray?", editor Celeste Yacoboni compiles hundreds of brief, first-person musings...
Book Review
Bound to Be Free
by Diane Taylor
An intensive Bible study guide designed to follow a two-month program, "Bound to Be Free" offers Christians eight steps to spiritual healing. In 2001, Greenman founded Ruth Ministries International, a nonprofit that, according to its...
Book Review
Best When Broken
by Diane Taylor
"Best When Broken" is the autobiography of Scott Coleman, a Christian man who found the true meaning of an abundant, God-centered life when he became paralyzed from the neck down at the age of seventeen. Coleman is a competent, but not...
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Drop the Charges
by Diane Taylor
A co-pastor of a church in the United Kingdom, Agnes Mensah-Bonsu believes that Christians must learn to forgive those who transgress against them. Few would argue that the Christian obligation to forgive others, in the same way that...
Book Review
The Tale of Eleazar
by Diane Taylor
First published in Good Housekeeping magazine in 1966, Priscilla Noble-Mathews’ "The Tale of Eleazar" recounts the New Testament story of the birth of Jesus as told through the eyes of the Virgin Mary’s donkey. It begins with a...
Book Review
Lessons About Life, Love, Hate, and Human Experience
by Diane Taylor
Relentlessly repetitive, Lessons About Life hammers home a brand of prosperity theology that claims “You are the captain of your own Destiny.” Assuming (as always) that the author’s Christian intentions are good, it stands to...