reviews

A History and Argument for Orthodoxy in an Age of Social Correctness Author: Frank Schaeffer For the last several years I’ve been searching for a home church. Once I moved to DC, my original church was too far away; the churches I’ve attended in DC have been more about politics, and a recapitulation of the nightly news, than about the scripture and what it means. In my short time on earth I’ve run the gauntlet raised as a strict protestant fundamentalist to eventually oscillate to the other extreme during college where I existed as a Christian in name only, claiming [...]

Ascending Asia... Author:  Kate Harris I was hooked by the brief bio on the back flap.  Canadian author Kate Harris “lives off-grid in a log cabin on the border of Yukon, British Columbia and Alaska.”  Now I’ve never been to that particular spot on the globe, but just a brief consultation with Google Maps will point out that it’s pretty hard to find a more isolated place to set up housekeeping.  It was clear to me that Lands of Lost Borders was going to be no ordinary cycling exploit. Suffering from a lifelong case of aggravated wanderlust, the young Harris [...]

The Popular, Scandalous Coming of Age Story Authorr: V.C. Andrews Recently, I decided to take a stroll down nostalgia lane and return to a cultural teenage favorite – Flowers in the Attic. This particular offering is one of the few novels actually written by V.C. Andrews herself (and not the extraordinarily prolific line of repetitive ghost writers hired by her estate). Even friends and coworkers who aren’t addicted to novels remember reading this forbidden, guilty treat that marks the transition from child to adult, and hence the beginning of a fall from innocence. A disturbed coming of age tale, complete [...]