How Original is Your Faith?

Is your faith your very own, or is it borrowed from some other person or system? Paul Maurice Martin challenges us to ask ourselves this question in his book Original Faith: What Your Life is Trying to Tell You. Paul discusses faith intelligently both from an intellectual perspective and from his personal viewpoint as someone [...]

Book Review: Not of My Making

One of my favourite aspects of blogging is to be asked to do book reviews. I agreed to this one, and ended up reading a book that I would never otherwise pull off the shelf. The book is called Not of My Making: Bullying, Scapegoating and Misconduct in Churches by Margaret W Jones, PhD. As [...]

Book Review: Flying By the Seat of My Soul

Flying by the Seat of My Soul was written by Tess Marshall who blogs at The Bold Life. I knew Tess as a blogger before I read her book, and my admiration for who she is and the life she has lived grew by leaps and bounds with every chapter I read in her book. [...]

Book Review: Facing The Final Mystery

Facing the Final Mystery: A Guide to Discussing End-of-Life Issues was written by Laura Larsen, a registered nurse with over 30 years experience in nursing. I found the book very helpful with many practical suggestions on how we can make the approach to death much more humane and even beautiful. I highly recommend this book [...]

Book Review: The World Without Us

If all humans were to disappear from the face of the earth tomorrow due to catastrophic disease or weapons of mass destruction gone amok, would the earth be better or worse off without us? This is the question Alan Weisman tries to answer in his fascinating book The World Without Us. While dire in its [...]

The WriteShots and The Quote Effect

The WriteShots I am honoured that Henie has invited me to guest post at her lovely blog The WriteShots. She takes beautiful photographs that she posts and writes about, which makes it a photo blog with deeply personal and beautiful writing. Please take some time to read my post at The Write Shots. I’m closing [...]

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