The Traveler’s Path

The Traveler’s Path

Douglas Brouwer caught the travel bug early. His parents took him and his sister on trips nearly every year. For Brouwer, though, travel was much more than just checking off the name of a location on some sort of bucket list. He realized that travel had the potential to broaden his experience and he

Midnight Burger

Midnight Burger

From Father Brown and Sherlock Holmes to Adventures in Odyssey, audio dramas have long left an impact on generations. And they are making a comeback in the form of podcasts. One of the most popular audio dramas for adults is a science fiction story called Midnight Burger.A mysterious transdimensiona

F1: The Movie

F1: The Movie

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A stranger rides into town. He’s there because his old friend called him out of retirement to restore law and order, and the hotshot young deputy isn’t up to the task. But the stranger carries an old wound, and his methods are unorthodox, so at first the seas

Adi of Boutanga: A Story from Cameroon

Adi of Boutanga: A Story from Cameroon

Author Alain Serge Dzota was born into a poor family in Cameroon and discovered the joy of reading when he started elementary school. Learning to read opened up a world of stories to him and empowered him to eventually become a writer. His cultural perspective and experience of childhood poverty and

Just Making: A Guide for Compassionate Creatives

Just Making: A Guide for Compassionate Creatives

Mitali Perkins is well known for her award-winning novels and picture books for young readers, including Rickshaw Girl and You Bring the Distant Near. This time, the award-winning author speaks to all creatives in her new book Just Making, written for adults.She asks the age-old question: How can we

A Complete Unknown

A Complete Unknown

That Bob Dylan—why did he do what he did? A musical artist skyrockets to fame, only to change his sound? Why?A Complete Unknown maps out the mystery of Dylan, and while clarifying some things, doesn’t answer what it can’t: Who is Bob Dylan? The title might well be director James Mangold’s answer.The

Mastering Our Emotions: Biblical Principles for Emotional Health

Mastering Our Emotions: Biblical Principles for Emotional Health

Author Dr. Kevin Chapman, a licensed psychologist with a specialty in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), offers Christian readers a remarkably helpful manual for pursuing emotional health.Dr. Chapman’s workbook represents a blending of two schools of thought that, he asserts, have historically been

Oz-ily Ever After: Writing L. Frank Baum Into ‘Magical’ Fiction

Oz-ily Ever After: Writing L. Frank Baum Into ‘Magical’ Fiction

A Hundred Magical Reasons Book Group Resources - Laura DeNooyer Author - Standout StoriesJanie, one of two main characters in A Hundred Magical Reasons, is a little girl living in the early 1900s with rigid, unimaginative parents and a secret friendship with a family who brings wonder and care into

Harmen Hoek: Adventurous Filmmaker (YouTube)

Harmen Hoek: Adventurous Filmmaker (YouTube)

The Japanese word shinrin-yoku means “forest bathing.” This unique word refers to the practice of immersing yourself in nature to lower stress and enhance well-being. Although it originated in Japan, it is now practiced all over the world. The instructions for forest bathing are simple. First, get i

The Monarch Effect: Surviving Poison, Predators, and People

The Monarch Effect: Surviving Poison, Predators, and People

Dana L. Church, author of The Beekeepers: How Humans Changed the World of Bumble Bees, offers children ages 8 to 12 another fantastic, detailed exploration of an aspect of God’s creation, specifically, monarch butterflies. Though Church doesn’t acknowledge that God is the creator of all, Christian r

Long Haulers

Long Haulers

Long Haulers (available weekly on YouTube) is science fiction from a fresh perspective. Rather than a galaxy populated exclusively by Chosen One farm boys with princess sisters, explorers on state-of-the-art starships, daring smugglers, and military units, creator (and star) Michael McGruther dares

Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age

Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age

Five hundred years ago, Richard Beck argues, the world was enchanted. He writes in the opening chapter of his book, Hunting Magic Eels, that before the Protestant Reformation and the beginning of the Enlightenment, “God existed, and the devil was real. The world teemed with angels and demons. There

Collision

Collision

The two-part PBS British crime drama, Collision, zigzags through time. One moment we’re in a literal car crash; the next, we’re in the inspector’s quiet office as DI John Tolin plots cause and effect. Quite clever, I thought.The collision is a terrible multi-vehicle accident on a British highway. As