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Book Review: How Strong Women Pray
by Bonnie St. John Bonnie St. John has an impressive resume. Her list of accomplishments includes Paralympic Silver Medalist, one-legged Olympic ski champion, magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, Rhodes Scholar, White House official, author, motivational speaker. What one may not expect to learn is that such an accomplished woman was also a victim…
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Book Review: With the Master in the School of Tested Faith by Susan Heck
Women who write Bible studies for women are in high demand these days. It seems that every time I visit our local Christian retailer there is a new, “insightful,” “life-changing,” Bible study written specifically for women. I have participated in many of these studies. Some are better than others. However, after attending one frustrating (to…
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Book Review: Get Out of that Pit by Beth Moore
“It takes one to know one.” Isn’t that what we said in retaliation to a schoolyard taunt? Yet Beth Moore turns the phrase, using it to imbibe hope in those Christians who are “living” in pits. Having lived so much of her life in one pit after another, it is her pleasure and passion to…
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Book Review and Interview
Tim Challies has posted my review of Shopping for Time by Carolyn Mahaney, Nicole Whitacre, Kristin Chesemore, and Janelle Bradshaw at Discerning Reader. Last week, those wonderful women agreed to an interview. Tim and I put some questions together really quickly. I tried to consider what most women would want to know about the book,…
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Book Review: Hoping for Something Better
Hoping for Something Better: Refusing to Settle for Life as Usualby Nancy Guthrie To a certain degree we approach life with our own set of expectations. When we realize that reality falls painfully short of our expectations, the questions become, “Is that it? Is this all there is? I really thought life would be better.”…
Leslie Wiggins 