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Flunking Sainthood
Good-Bye, Lisbeth Salander: A Review of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
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Jana Riess
Apparently in Sweden, everyone who works in counter-intelligence drives a neutral-colored Volvo. Even when you’re engaged in international espionage, it’s vital to stay safe. That’s one of a number of important lessons I learned from reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the third in Stieg Larsson‘s trilogy of potboilers. Potboilers are important to…
Donna Freitas Dishes on Sex, Catholic Clergy Scandals, and Her Beautiful New Novel “This Gorgeous Game”
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Jana Riess
Donna Freitas (FRAY-tus) has carved out a career as a religion scholar focusing on young adults’ spirituality and sexuality (Sex and the Soul, Oxford). But in her other life, she’s also a YA novelist whose first book, The Possibilities of Sainthood (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), got starred reviews pretty much every place that fiction reviews…
Harry Potter, Patheos, and the One Book Christians Should Read This Summer
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Jana Riess
There’s a thought-provoking blog discussion going on today, where lots of Theobloggers have been asked the question: Apart from the Bible, what book has most deeply affected your faith life in the past ten years? And, is there any book that few Christians read, but every Christian should read? Sara Miles does Dennis Covington’s Salvation…
Kate Gosselin Gets Religion: A New Book from “Kate Plus 8” Star on Family and Faith
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Jana Riess
I blame my mother for introducing me to the Gosselin family. During one of her visits last year, TLC was running a marathon of Jon & Kate Plus 8, and Mom was glued to the screen. I watched several episodes with her and was surprised to find that she knew each child’s history and personality.…
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