Christian fiction blog

Recently I finished Ashlyn McKayla Ohm’s When the Ice Melts, a powerful book that fits into the Contemporary Christian Fiction and Sisters Fiction genres. It came out last month and is definitely worth a read and the author is worth following. The main character in...

  Among the young-adult friendship books that have come out in the last month, one of the nicest ones is Pieces of Me Everywhere, by Regina Felty. The main character, Alli, is challenged by her long-term best friend, Tessa, who is steadily becoming harder to deal...

Shortly after finishing Stealing Freedom, by Sylvia Leontaritis, I got on an airplane. One of the movies available on the free wi-fi was Belfast, a nominee for Best Picture at the Academy Awards last month. As I watched it, I thought, "I feel like I just read this."...

In Dniprorudne, if you visited America, you were something of a celebrity. Being a Peace Corps volunteer from America myself and being the tallest person most of these people had seen in their lives, I was the most visible of these celebrities. But there were others.

Of the books I’ve read that include a religious main character trying to find his or her way in the world, I think this is the best one of the bunch. The main character, Lucy, is the only daughter of a pastor and wife who run a summer camp. Her mother had a bout with cancer a couple of years before the book starts, and now the disease has come back at the beginning of summer.

I’m going to start out my review of “Lights on the Mountain” by Cheryl Anne Tuggle with a guess. The book takes place near Ellwood City, Pa., and sounds kind of similar to a Flannery O’Connor story with its flickers of grace becoming evident through tragedy.