Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
10 best books like Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies (Marilyn Chandler McEntyre): Confessions, The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights and Other Appreciations, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection, Singing for Mrs Pettigrew: A Story Maker's Journey, Office Of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay, Communion with God, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books, Rhubarb, An Essential Guide to Interpersonal Communication: Building Great Relationships with Faith, Skill, and Virtue in the Age of Social Media
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0192833723 |
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting...
The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights and Other Appreciations
| Author | John McCain |
| ISBN | 1501178008 |
In this candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain, an American hero reflects on his life—and what matters most.
I don’t know how much longer I’ll be here. Maybe I’ll have another five years. Maybe, with the advances in oncology, they’ll find new treatments for my cancer...
| Author | Robert Farrar Capon |
| ISBN | 0375760563 |
From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everything from prayer to poetry to puff pastry. In The Supper of the Lamb, Capon talks about festal and ferial cooking, emerging as an inspirational voice extolling...
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 1406300764 |
Short story collections seem a good idea for busy people. This book stands out from others on my shelves as the author, Michael Morpurgo shares the genesis of his stories, indeed, his writing journey. His raison d'être.
"I am a grower of stories. I farm them as surely as a farmer does his corn." he...
| Author | Scott F. Crider |
| ISBN | 1932236457 |
A frivolous argument or inflated claim is often dismissed with the reply, "That's just rhetoric!" But as Scott Crider explains in The Office of Assertion, the classical tradition of rhetoric is both a productive and a liberal art. The ability to employ rhetoric successfully can enable the student,...
| Author | John Owen |
| ISBN | 0851516076 |
In 1657, John Owen produced one of his finest devotional treatises (probably originating from the substance of a series of sermons). He examines the Christians communion with God as it relates to all three members of the Trinity. He assures us that every Christian does have communion with God, no one...
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
| Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0830822577 |
As a society, we are no less obsessed with the immediate than when Eugene Peterson first wrote this Christian classic. If anything, email and the Internet may have intensified our quest for the quick fix. But Peterson's time-tested prescription for discipleship remains the same--a long obedience...
On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
| Author | Karen Swallow Prior |
| ISBN | 1587433966 |
Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading good literature well requires...
When Martin discovers that aliens are really among us, he’s not as shocked as you might think. After all, as a traveling salesman, he’s spent more than enough hours on the road listening to late-night talk radio to know about these things. The odd thing is that these aliens are coming to tiny Brixton,...
An Essential Guide to Interpersonal Communication: Building Great Relationships with Faith, Skill, and Virtue in the Age of Social Media
| Author | Quentin J. Schultze |
| ISBN | 0801038944 |
Virtually every human endeavor involves interpersonal communication. Leading Christian scholar and media commentator Quentin Schultze and respected professor of communication Diane Badzinski offer a solid Christian perspective on the topic, helping readers communicate with faith, skill,...
| Author | Callie Bates |
| ISBN | 0425284026 |
Lady Elanna Valtai is fiercely devoted to the King who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder and must flee for her life.
Returning to the homeland of magical legends she has forsaken, Elanna is forced to reckon with her despised,...
| Author | Callie Bates |
| ISBN | 0399177418 |
2.5 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum https://bibliosanctum.com/2018/06/04/...
Writing a negative is never easy, and there are certain books that make me feel extra crummy about it because I know the problem lies solely within me and not in the book itself. The Memory of Fire is a perfect example....
Station Blackout: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Recovery
| Author | Charles A. Casto |
| ISBN | 1635764025 |
On March 11, 2011, fifty minutes after a magnitude 9.0 hit earthquake eastern Japan, a tsunami 45-feet high engulfed the nuclear power plant known as Fukushima Daiichi, knocking out electrical power and all the reactors' safety systems. Three reactor cores had meltdowns in the first three days, leading...
Yes, I Glow in the Dark!: One MIle from Three Mile Island to Fukushima and Beyond
In 1979, Libbe HaLevy went east to visit friends and ended up trapped one mile from the leaking nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island. This harrowing, deeply compassionate and surprisingly humorous book follows her through decades of Post-Traumatic Stress, failed Broadway aspirations and successful...
Real Relationships: From Bad to Better and Good to Great
| Author | Les Parrott III |
| ISBN | 0310332966 |
In this updated edition of their bestselling book, Relationships, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott dig below the surface to the depths of human interactions, offering expert advice and practical tools for improving the most important aspect of human life: relationships. Designed for college students,...
Ginger Pride: A redheaded history of the world
| Author | Tobias Anthony |
| ISBN | 1925418650 |
Woooo, ginger pride! .
Why College Matters to God
| Author | Rick Ostrander |
| ISBN | 0891123237 |
At last, a brief, readable introduction to the unique purpose and value of a Christian college education. This book draws on the insights of a wide range of Christian philosophers, historians, scientists, and theologians, but communicates key concepts in straightforward language and analogies...
Ideas Have Consequences, Expanded Edition
| Author | Richard M. Weaver |
| ISBN | 1538460009 |
Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and debated at the time of its first publication, the...
