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  • ****Political Update****

      Excerpts from the ACLJ:   News reports now say that in addition to sending over $500 million in United States tax dollars to the new terrorist-run "Unity Government" of Palestine, our American military – the best trained military force the world has ever known – will provide training to the army that the terrorist…

  • The satisfaction of . . . Targets Down

      Nothing better than a retired FBI agent turning to writing fiction for his next career. Bob Hamer’s Targets Down is published by Broadman & Holman’s imprint Fidelis Books and delivers the authenticity a reader expects from a former undercover agent.   The cocky but accomplished Matt Hogan works undercover for the FBI, and when…

  • Parables and Novels . . .

      Messages, agendas. These words define the basis for criticism of some Christian Fiction. Conversions, evangelism—these characteristics assumed to be included in every Christian novel that comes from the printers. And these four words aptly describe a good chunk of the general genre but not all of it.   Somehow from the early writings of…

  • Conclusions . . .

      The season is ending for a lot of series television before the short summer seasonal programs begin. Some of the programs will not return in the fall while others have already received their guarantees.   Cliffhangers, deaths of favorite characters, relationships abruptly ending while others are surprisingly indulged—or at least hinted at. Ah, the…

  • The Subjectivity of Objectivity

      Recently on a “Bones” episode, Dr. Brennan discussed objectivity with the night watchman Micah, telling him she feared she was unable to maintain her objectivity in the particular case she was investigating. Micah explained that he heard in a lecture that there could be no real objectivity because of the different influences occurring in…

  • Different . . .

      Some people don’t want to be “different”, they just are. Others think they want to be different, but they mesh with a “different” crowd and end up being the same as them. What is different anyway? I suppose it depends on what you’re discussing. Fashion? Mannerisms? Writing? What qualifies as different in particular situations?…

  • Sunday’s Offerings

      But the man who loves God is known by God. 1 Corinthians 8:3 (NIV)

  • 2011 Christy Award Nominations

      Contemporary Romance   Blood Ransom by Lisa Harris (Zondervan)   Indivisible* by Kristin Heitzmann (WaterBrook Press)   Sworn to Protect by DiAnn Mills (Tyndale House Publishers)   Contemporary Series, Sequels, and Novellas   The Reluctant Prophet* by Nancy Rue (David C. Cook)   The Thorn by Beverly Lewis (Bethany House Publishers, a division of…

  • Mere Preferences . . .

      Fiction over non-fiction. Always. Michael over Mike. Anything over Fantasy and Bonnet Books and most Historicals. Nicole over Nichole. Please. Sun over snow. Beach over mountains. Australia over the Far East. My dad's spaghetti over anyone else's. I miss you, Dad. My mom's cherry pie over anyone else's. I miss you, Mom.   Once…

  • So many “ifs” . . .

      If money was no objective . . . If you could do anything you wanted to do . . . If you could go anywhere in the world . . . If you could have any skill . . . What?   Father, thank you for all you've given me. You've been so gracious…