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Hearing “The Voice”

The Voice Bible proposes to do something new: present God’s word narratively rather than propositionally.  That may be an overstatement, as the Bible is propositional ...
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Holiday Book Fair 2011

Janie and I have reviewed a lot of books this year.  Thanks to the ingenuity of folks at Amazon.com, we can now offer them to ...
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What Are Your Kids Getting Under the Tree?

Janie has offered lots of kids' book gift suggestions on the site this week.  And I'm hoping to chime in next week, too.  For those ...
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Recommendations for Teens

As reported by the L.A. Times only a week ago, “Young adult continues to be the literary world’s fastest-growing genre.”  There are a lot of ...
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Books for Emerging Book-Lovers

Picture books are traditional, and YA is new and glamorous, but the area of literature I consider to be “classic children’s” is that big glorious ...
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Thoughts on A Christmas Carol: Reading and Watching

Charles Dickens, unlike other great authors like Herman Melville, had the good fortune of enjoying widespread fame and popularity during his lifetime.  A Christmas Carol ...
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Picture Book Roundup

Late last year an article in the New York Times caused the book world to shiver and shake and ask itself, "Is the picture book ...
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A More Excellent Way

On Friday we looked at some very popular picture books that you just might find under your tree.  Some of them are better than others, ...
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Thanks Anyway . . .

Any bookstore manager can tell you that one of the most reliable customer types is the older woman with no children in the household (either ...
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Ereaders and ebooks: An Interview with Mike Sugimoto

Should your family purchase an ereader or ipad?  What about your kids--should they be allowed to read book apps or ebooks?  Tablets or ereaders are ...
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He’s Coming!

In the fundamentalist church where I grew up, we never did advent.  I never even understood what the word meant until well into my twenties, ...
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Bible Gifts for Kids

We've written a number of articles about Bibles and Bible-related kids' books over the past year.  Here are a few that might make great Christmas ...
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