In Marcus Conter’s A Light in the Silence, Brazilian musician Mateus has settled in Laval, Quebec, when his father summons him back to southern Brazil. Maria, the mother who held her four sons together, died only three months before her widower, Marlboro, summons them home...

Few books dare readers to think that most of what they believe about God may be tradition masked as truth. The Way, The Truth, The Life: A Guide for the Road to Life by P. D. Blackwell makes that challenge. The book is divided into...

Nicholas Campion’s The New Age in the Modern West is an intellectual history of the New Age as a modern expression of older Western hopes for a better world. Campion begins with millenarianism and utopianism, showing how Western culture repeatedly imagines a lost golden age...

The people you spend the most time with may be influencing you more than you realize. This idea is explored in The Principle of The Five Chairs by Phil Graffoe. Using the concept of individuals sitting in metaphorical chairs, the guide helps readers understand the...

Have you ever wondered what Jesus was up to between the time of Creation and the time of being born in Bethlehem? Who was Jesus before he came to be known as the Savior of humanity? According to Gerald D. Robison, there's plenty of evidence...

David L. Hoshour’s Equipping Insights: The Gospel of Matthew moves through Matthew chapter by chapter, beginning with Jesus’ genealogy and ending with the risen Christ sending His disciples to the nations. The author puts the NASB 1995 text before his commentary, then asks what each...

In Jesus’ Story, Brian P. Sheets reorganizes the four Gospels, together with part of Acts, into one chronological account of Jesus Christ’s earthly life. Sheets begins with the announcements surrounding John the Baptist and Jesus, then follows Jesus through childhood into the ministry that leads...

Bud Megargee’s SOUL Octopus Analogy introduces a New Age model of the soul as an octopus whose head holds a central spiritual consciousness while each arm carries a separate incarnation. Those lives may exist across different eras at once, gathering experience for the same larger...

Robin Brudefors’s The Great Lies is a philosophical book built around the idea that many beliefs shape our lives simply because we stopped asking whether they are true. Brudefors calls these inherited assumptions Great Lies and examines what happens when they are treated as choices...

A Poem for When You Need It Most by Regan Noelle Smith reads like a personal journal meant to help you walk through the hardest, most painful seasons of your life. Regan skips past the easy platitudes to give you a look at the physical...