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  • Finding the Self's Authentic Interests

    June 27th, 200901:42 PM ET
    By Richard Doster
    In literature, writers test their theories. They play out a whole range of ideas and circumstances, evaluating scenes, actions and reactions, conversation, emotions, character traits.... Like sculptors, I suppose, writers step away from the work and examine it-asking themselves: "Does this convey what I had in mind? Does it sound good? Is the temp...

  • Timeless Wisdom from Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe

    June 24th, 200904:20 PM ET
    By Audra Jennings
    Be Hopeful by Warren Wiersbe David C Cook releases eight revised editions of Dr. Wiersbe's trusted Bible commentaries-the "BE" Series For the past four decades, the widely popular "BE" series, a set of more than 50 Bible studies by Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe, has sold over four million copies and led untold numbers deeper in their walks with...

  • A tender, quirky story about grief-and second chances

    June 24th, 200902:48 PM ET
    By Audra Jennings
    Talking to the Dead by Bonnie Grove Talking to the Dead In her first novel, author Bonnie Grove offers readers a tender, quirky story about grief-and second chances "Kevin was dead and the people in my house wouldn't go home. They mingled after the funeral, eating sandwiches, drinking tea, and speaking in muffled tones. I didn't feel grate...

  • The King's Legacy: A Story of the Wisdom of the Ages

    June 24th, 200902:25 PM ET
    By Audra Jennings
    The King's Legacy by Jim Stovall Best-selling author Jim Stovall's classic parable returns in an updated gift edition From the best-selling author of the The Ultimate Gift, now a major motion picture, comes an ageless tale with a profound message: Sometimes wisdom is where you least expect it. This summer, Jim Stovall's classic parable,...

  • Kids Serving Kids

    June 23rd, 200907:24 PM ET
    By Audra Jennings
    Give your kids a hands-on mission project and a chance to serve needy children around the world What do think about when you read headlines about economic hardships, natural disasters, and politically charged conflict? Circumstances like these set families and entire communities reeling, and few people are affected as profoundly as the children in...

  • Caught in the Crossfire of Black and White

    June 23rd, 200904:59 PM ET
    By Audra Jennings
    The exciting sequel to Richard Doster's Safe at Home offers a front row seatat the explosive events of the Civil Rights Movement Crossing the Lines by Richard Doster Eager audiences need wait no longer for the much anticipated sequel to Richard Doster's well-received Safe at Home. In Doster's new historical fiction, Crossing the Lines (David ...

  • Not Your Grandmother's Bible Study

    June 23rd, 200904:39 PM ET
    By Audra Jennings
    Award-winning team of Heitzig and Rose has created a stylish, fast,AND substantive Bible study series for women on the go Voracious Bible study readers, women purchase Bible studies more than do men by a ratio of five-to-one-and Gallup reports that 14 percent of Americans belong to a Bible-study group. This summer, David C Cook will release two ne...

  • The Reason We Read

    June 21st, 200908:09 AM ET
    By Richard Doster
    In his book, How to Read and Why, Harold Bloom, the respected literary critic, says that there is no single way to read well, but that there is a prime reason. "Information," Bloom says, is "endlessly available to us..." Then he rhetorically asks, "Where shall we find wisdom?" Bloom unknowingly underscores the urgency of Proverbs 3: "Blessed is th...

  • 38,102 miles, 38 years, 1 mission

    June 17th, 200906:25 PM ET
    By Audra Jennings
    From Hollywood to Iran, Jerusalem to Poland,One Man with One Message: The Cross The Cross by Arthur Blessitt "And then Jesus said to lay it all down, and let your vision be no bigger than the next person you meet. Following that vision has carried me around the world."-Arthur Blessitt Over the past thirty-eight years, Arthur Blessitt has wal...

  • Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly - June 5

    June 04th, 200902:54 PM ET
    By Religion Ethics
    Listed below are program highlights for RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY #1240 distributed nationally this Friday, June 5, 2009: Muslim Reaction to Obama's Address - Bob Abernethy is joined by Dr. Vali Nasr, senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Kate Seelye, RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY corres...
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