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Book Review: The Orphan Master’s Son
The Orphan Master’s Son, set in North Korea, by Adam Johnson is a literary tale about identity and story. The setting, plot, and characters captivate on their own level to bring us a story we can relate to. Identity Most of the major characters are unnamed or given a pseudonym. The main character never knows…
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Why Read Fiction?
People say fiction is only make-believe and those who read it want to escape life. Nonfiction is reality, they say; fiction isn’t. Why waste your time? It’s true that non-fiction describes life accurately. But fiction shows us truth in a special way. In story, we enter the world of the tale through words on the page.…
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Book Review: Quaker Summer
Book: Quaker Summer by Lisa Samson This women’s contemporary fiction was more than an enjoyable read. The main character, Heather, is unhappy with her (from the outside looking in) wonderful life but doesn’t understand why she isn’t content. She struggles with guilt from her past. She leaves her perfect church where it seems everyone there…
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Book Review: One Thousand Gifts
Most mornings she woke weary, beaten down by dirty floors and crying children and heavy tasks. Her mind looked for escape from what lay ahead: the same as yesterday, tomorrow, and next week. Like a stagnant pond. She worked hard yesterday only to find much that needed to be tackled again. Would her life ever…
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Gatsby’s Great Mistakes
I read Proverbs 13 this morning after seeing the new Gatsby movie on the weekend, and several verses made me think of Jay Gatsby. I wondered just how his quest would’ve been different is he’d heeded just three verses in Proverbs. Verse 7: “One man pretends to be rich yet has nothing; another pretends to…
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The Story of Moses
Moses, great man of God, can teach us much about God’s patience and grace. God gave Moses abilities to use for his people, and we can learn as we read his story in Exodus. When God called Moses to go back to Egypt and rescue the Hebrews, God often had many opportunities to be angry…
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Late-Breaking Story
As a young boy, his mother brought him to church. His father didn’t attend with them. The boy soon outgrew church, trading it in for the outdoors. He hunted, trapped, and fished. Later still, he and my mom raised four daughters, and he attended church with the family only for baptisms and weddings. He guided…
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Guest Post By Vanessa Parker
I spent every summer from age five with my Aunt Laura and Uncle Gus. My mother, Norma, drove me the three-hour trip to her sister’s in Spokane, Washington. I always hoped Norma would forget me there so I could live with Aunt Laura, but she’d appear again at the end of August and drive me…
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February Love Stories
February, the month of love. Love is why we get married and the lack of love is why so many divorce, but it doesn’t have to happen. When my husband and I’d been married about ten years, I remember feeling differently than when we were first married. Of course, we had three kids and had…
Terri Picone 