This is Going to Hurt
“However a health-care system might be set up or funded, the experience of being a doctor is utterly universal. The same heartbreak, the same hilarity, the same damaging work schedule, and, of course, the same baffling array of objects getting constantly inserted into orifices.”
Everything We Didn’t Say
Unsolved double homicide in a rural Iowan farming community. Let’s do this.
The Gathering Storm
“Christians must display faith in God’s design, faith in God’s Word, and faith in the power of the gospel.”
A Gentle Answer
“While true faith is filled with holy fire, it is a fire that is meant for refining and healing, as opposed to dividing and destroying.”
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
“The sovereignty of God in grace gave Paul hope of success as he preached to deaf ears, and held up Christ before blind eyes, and sought to move stony hearts. His confidence was that where Christ sends the gospel there Christ has his people.”
Born Again This Way
“Our culture sings that we’re ‘born this way,’ as if that settles the matter. But I’m born again.”
Notorious RBG
“On or off the bench, she has always been steadfast, and when the work is justice, she has every intention to see it to the end.”
Blackout
“While Democrats have long acknowledged our struggles and the crimes enacted against us, they have done little to provide actual remedies or prepare us for a future that does not center on our brokenness.”
Fault Lines
“I believe that the current concept of social justice is incompatible with biblical Christianity… Our problem is a lack of clarity and charity in our debate over the place, priority, practice, and definition of justice.”
The Paris Library
“Libraries are lungs. Books the fresh air breathed in to keep the heart beating, to keep the brain imagining, to keep hope alive.”
Eve in Exile
“The question is not where a woman is standing but which direction she is pointed.”
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
“If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms. My letters set me free. Or at least they’re supposed to.”
Spellbreaker
“There were two kinds of wizards in the world— those who cast spells, and those who broke them.”
The Desolations of Devil’s Acre
“The final trial is yet to come: a battle the magnitude of which we can’t yet know.”
The Silent Sisters
“Jenkins had screwed up. He’d cared. He should have just walked away.”
2021 Fall Reading Challenge
Picture it: reading a book in the crisp fall air with some hot apple cider! Check out this reading list and make that picture a reality!