Christian fiction blog

Non-fiction time: This article in the Wall Street Journal is a very personal topic for us as we had to fight this exact fight to get treatment for our micropreemie, born at 22 weeks and 6 days of gestation in 2012. The hospital at first said it could not provide care...

There is this phrase in the world of girls: "He's my boyfriend; he just doesn't know it yet." It means stay away from him. It means that girls have to be very careful when telling her best friends they have crushes because if both of them have the same crush, there...

Time to promote a neighbor book on the YA-Christian contemporary shelf. “Where the Wings Rise” has just been released. This is the second book in the “Climbing Higher Series” by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm. It’s an amazing combination of faith and recovery and you should check...

Last week, I finished "Calculated," by Nova McBee, a thriller about saving the world and breaking up an international organized crime ring. The main character uses five or six names throughout the book, and has a gift of mathematics that allows her to predict the...

Last night I was up way too late finishing “The Revised Life of Ellie Sweet,” by Stephanie Morrill. It was an excellent book that I highly recommend, a model for the friendship / relationship / coming-of-age genre of young-adult books. (One of the reasons I read it...

Few topics provoke the combined feelings of anger and futility the way that homelessness does. One mayor says he’s going to be aggressive and “clean it up,” the next mayor says he’ll “solve it” with permanent housing. Both approaches can make you mad as you can call...