biography
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Adult biographiesThe Poetic Wonder of Isaac Watts
by Douglas Bond 2013 / 163 pages Isaac Watts was born in 1674 when the Psalms sung in the English Church were stiff and difficult…
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EconomicsFriedrich Hayek (1899-1992) showed us that free enterprise is necessary for freedom
One of the greatest social theorists of the twentieth century was a libertarian – some would say conservative – economist named Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992). Hayek…
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Book excerptsA passage from “The Hiding Place” I can’t manage to read out loud…
Corrie Ten Boom’s autobiographical The Hiding Place is best known for its account of her war time experiences. But one of the many powerful sections in the…
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Adult biographies5 things you might not have known about Pierre Poilievre
Andrew Lawton’s Pierre Poilievre: A political life (2024/212 pages) is a biography of the man who might yet be the next Prime Minister of Canada….
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Adult biographiesUpheld: A widow’s story of love, grief, & the constancy of God
by Christine Farenhorst 2025 / 252 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Anyone who has ever loved is going to face loss, and what are we to do…
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AssortedWrite down your story
Sharing your history is sharing His story …things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them…
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Adult biographiesChiune Sugihara (1900-1986): a Japanese bureaucrat who saved Jews
In the mid- to late-1800s, Japan ended its long centuries of isolationism and opened to the outside world. Knowing the de facto loss of sovereignty…
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Book ReviewsSteve Jobs: Insanely Great
by Jessie Hartland 2015 / 216 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift What makes something a really good read? It can be the writing – some writers can turn…
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Adult biographies10 great Christian biographies
A reason to read Christian biographies is to see and be encouraged by what God has done in other people’s lives. They’re a way to…
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Adult biographiesThe Vow
by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter 2012 / 183 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This is Exhibit #1 in why you should never judge a book by its movie….
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Adult biographiesThe secret thoughts of an unlikely convert
an english professor’s journey into christian faith by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield 2012 / 150 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT 13 words: Post-modern, lesbian activist, university English professor…
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Adult biographiesUnbroken: A World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand 2010, 497 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT One of the least amazing things about Louis Zamperini is that he took up skateboarding in his…
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Adult biographiesMy Father’s Journey
by Harry Kleyn 2022, 411 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give A few years ago I was asked to teach a North American church history course at Covenant Canadian…
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Adult biographiesGod’s Smuggler
by Brother Andrew Autobiography 1967 / 288 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT This is an amazing true story about God’s miraculous interventions to get Bibles to his…
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Adult biographiesListen! Six Men You Should Know
by Christine Farenhorst 161 pages / 2021 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give The six men we get introduced to here are given 25-30 pages each which is enough…
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Book ReviewsCorrie ten Boom: the courageous woman and the secret room
by Laura Caputo-Wickham 2021 / 24 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give For such a short one, this picture book sure fits a lot inside. We meet Corrie ten…
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Book ReviewsLuther: Echoes of the Hammer
by Susan K. Leigh illustrated by Dave Hill 2011 / 144 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I think this is the perfect complement to Luther: the graphic novel,…
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Graphic novelsLuther: the graphic novel
by Rich Melheim illustrated by Jonathan Koelsch 2016 / 72 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT I’ve reviewed other “comic biographies” and never enjoyed one more. Luther is scripted like…
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Adult biographiesCome Back, Barbara
by C. John Miller & Barbara Miller Juliani 182 pages / 1997 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This is the true story of a prodigal that came back. Barbara Miller,…
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Adult biographiesThe Wright Brothers
by David McCullough 320 pages / 2015 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Match an astonishing story with a superb storyteller and what more could we ask for? David…
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Adult biographiesTurning it to our good – an excerpt from “Man of the First Hour”
A great reason to read biographies is because they are an antidote to short-term thinking. When you’re caught up in the moment it’s easy to…
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Adult biographiesJohn MacArthur: Servant of the Word and Flock
by Iain H. Murray 240 pages / 2011 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001 John MacArthur has been a help and a…
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Adult biographiesThe hardest peace
Expecting grace in the midst of life’s hard by Kara Tippetts 2014 / 189 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give In this part biography, part devotional Kara wants…
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Adult biographiesSaint Patrick
by Jonathan Rogers 2010 / 132 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give While legends about St. Patrick (385-461) abound, facts about this Irish saint are hard to come by….
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Adult biographiesWinston Churchill
by John Perry 158 pages / 2010 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Though the man himself has been gone 50 + years now, the myth is enjoying a revival….
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Book ReviewsFinding Narnia: the Story of C. S. Lewis and His Brother
by Caroline McAlister 48 pages / 2019 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give C.S. Lewis wrote, “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good…
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Articles – BooksWhy read biographies?
More importantly, why stop? Any Christian who reads the Bible has been already been reading biographies. Let’s start with Genesis, where we read about the…
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Adult biographiesThe question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life
by Armand M. Nicholi Jr. 2002 / 244 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give While C.S. Lewis was 40 years younger than Sigmund Freud, he was well acquainted with…
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Adult biographiesThe Faith of Christopher Hitchens
by Larry Taunton Biography 181 pages / 2016 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give The late Christopher Hitchens is best known for his book god is not Great: How…
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Book lists5 books to help us never forget
Next week will mark Remembrance Day, and to help us remember these men and women – many in uniform, and also many who were not –…
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Adult biographies
The Hiding Place
by Corrie Ten Boom 1971 / 225 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT This was such an encouraging story, and in so many ways. If you know only…
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Book excerptsWhen gray hair meets green
**** Half his head is shaven. The middle part is green and the right side bright orange. He is clean, very clean. His red jeans…
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Adult non-fictionThe Thunder: A novel on John Knox
by Douglas Bond 2012 / 400 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT John Knox turns five hundred this year and I can’t think of a better way to…