Dynamic Woman — Changing Times
The Confessions of X illustrates the power of historical fiction to portray the earthiness of a saint in ways ethereal iconography cannot. Suzanne M. Wolfe gives us a slant on Saint Augustine that helps us mortals understand a mystery. That is, the roots of divine love dig deeply and affect our most formative relationships.
A friend who visited Auschwitz recently told me tourists were buzzing about this book. Sadly, it’s a story that never gets old. Man’s inhumanity to man makes headlines daily. Holocaust can never happen again, we tell ourselves, but it can and it is.
Much to ponder in this compelling work of literary art
In Self to Lose, Self to Find, Marilyn Vancil masterfully shares her examination of the Enneagram system in light of Biblical wisdom.
Reading books written in or about past eras brings perspective to present day conundrums. Is America more polarized than ever? Not according to Lidie Newton’s experience in the Kansas Territory of 1850.
I was tempted to read this book because a reviewer praised it for elegance, simplicity, and the author’s ability to speak about science in poetic and philosophic terms.
