There’s no such thing as bad music, says Daniel K. L. Chua, a professor of music at the University of Hong Kong. “I can get great joy from hearing my kids...
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I must have looked pretty silly to other drivers. But there I was. A grown man of 40 years. A father going home to his family. Driving on the freeway in my...
Read The Great Belonging By Charlotte Donlon (Broadleaf Books, 2020) “The book you are holding does not aim to cure your loneliness,” states the foreword of...
Read Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By Isabel Wilkerson (Random House, 2020) Caste. For most Americans, the word seems foreign. This is because it...
Many mornings, before my family gets up, I walk out of the bedroom, go outside, kneel down, and pray. Not because I am particularly holy or good. I am neither...
Read Missionaries By Phil Klay (Penguin Press, 2020) Before turning to full-time writing, Phil Klay put in more than a year’s service with the U.S. Marine...
Read American Harvest By Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Graywolf Press, 2020) “All discussions of food and agriculture begin with the land,” writes Marie Mutsuki...
Read Blessed Are the Nones By Stina Kielsmeier-Cook (InterVarsity Press, 2020) More than 40 percent of marriages are interfaith, according to a recent Pew...
Read Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God By Kaitlin B. Curtice (Brazos Press, 2020) Kaitlin B. Curtice’s new book, Native: Identity, Belonging...
Read The Book of Rosy By Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo (HarperOne, 2020) The Book of Rosy is a tale of two mothers. When Rosayra Pablo Cruz...
