The Book: The Preservationist, by David Maine
The Story: You know this one, I’m sure. Noah builds a boat. Noah gets the animals in two-by-two. Big flood comes and washes everything away. Noah & his family are the only survivors. They re-populate the Earth. There ya go.
This book bounces from perspective to perspective: Noah, his wife, [...]
The Book: Same Kind of Different As Me: A modern-day slave, an international art dealer, and the unlikely woman who bound them together, by Ron Hall & Denver Moore
The Story: Denver Moore and Ron Hall really could not have led lives that were more opposite than the ones that they were leading: Denver was a [...]
The Book: Kaleidoscope: Seeing God’s Wit and Wisdom in a Whole New Light, by Patsy Clairmont
The Story: The idea here is that kaleidoscopes are kind of whimsical and just offer up random little pictures and yadda yadda. In this book, Patsy Clairmont does a similar deal only out of the book of Proverbs. She just [...]
The Book: Stalking the Divine, by Kristen Ohlson
The Story: One Christmas, Kristen Ohlson wondered into a Catholic church in Cleveland. She had wondered away from any type of religion for years and just wanted to go to church on Christmas. It turns out that this Catholic church has a cloister of nuns called the Poor [...]
The Book: Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality, by Rob Bell
The Story: This book, as the subtitle says, goes into the connections between God and sex. It starts out very broad, talking about how we’ve distorted sex and our sexuality until it has little to do with what God has in [...]