I attended a Christian Writer’s Conference two years ago, a dizzying initiation into the subculture that produces much of the written material that American (at least) Christians read.
There I heard reverential references to Sally Stuart’s annual publication and dutifully picked up my copy at the bookstand. Continue Reading »
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My friend ‘JT’ has written this brief book in order to present in narrative format the gist of his life-long work empowering non-profits through his firm DMA, Inc. If you are particularly skeptical of friends’ reviews (which you should be at least a little bit), you may wish to stop reading now. Continue Reading »
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It is difficult to categorize this seductive first novelistic offering by Naomi Ragen.
Somewhat sheephishly, this middle-aged, white, male reviewer confesses its tones of over-written girly pop, an aspect that explains its being laid aside half-read for six months before it jumped back into my suitcase and lured me into a hungry, late-night series of readings to finish it. This element of Jephte’s Daughter is most charitably explained as the work of an immature but promising novelist. Continue Reading »
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Something has happened to Mary Hunt since her 1999 publication on Debt-Free Living. Or perhaps it’s happened to her editor. Or perhaps a ghost writer has slipped into her life.
Regardless, the same passion and good sense is now expressed with a pleasant and flowing presentation that makes her medicine all the more bearable to the debt-laden patient. Continue Reading »
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Kurt Gutierrez believes you can apply the same planning, discipline, and anticipated outcomes to saying healthy on the road as you do in the rest of your professional and personal life. ‘Just get it out there on an Excel spreadsheet’, I can almost hear the author say.
I like that. Continue Reading »
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Ken Blanchard’s little One Minute Manager books define a genre.
Neither riveting reading nor high-stakes illumination, they simply get a message across effectively to the management reader who is not too concerned with aesthetics. Even the illustrations are garden-variety basic.
Yet these books have sold millions and they work. Continue Reading »
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‘You always know just what to say’ is one of the highest of available compliments. One hears it too seldom. Continue Reading »
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‘Do you find yourself thinking a lot about your hips lately?’, Heather asks me with a completely straight face and no hint of irony.
It is difficult for a middle-aged man who has not once in his life contemplated his hips to respond quickly to such a question. After a moment’s hesitation, I manage to muster an awkward, ‘Umm …. not really.’ Continue Reading »
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It is difficult to imagine that so few years ago academic and professional writers painstakingly typed and checked (or typed and didn’t check) reference after reference. EndNote takes care of the hassle of managing multiple works and citations while writing a manuscript. As long as you type things in correctly the first time, you’re good to go, from title page to the last page of your index. Continue Reading »
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Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have honored the Greatest Generation as it deserves with this superb based-on-a-true-story film version of Easy Company’s long march through various kinds of warfare from D-Day through the fall of the Third Reich. Continue Reading »
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Canter Bridge 