"Culture care emphasizes that God cares for the whole of the creation (as his own artwork) and for history (as God's own story lived through our fallen reality), and that there is not one hair of our head or one moment of our journey that God does not pay close...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 138: Art + Faith by Makoto Fujimara
by MHill | Mar 29, 2024 | 2024 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Makoto Fujimara, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I have always had a fascination with the intersection of art and faith, particularly from the perspective of American Christianity. Throughout most of my life as an adult (currently in my early fifties), and even prior to that, it seems like these two things have been...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 132: Cure For The Common Life by Max Lucado
by MHill | Nov 22, 2023 | 2023 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Nonfiction, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
"God made one version of you. He custom designed you for a one-of-a-kind-assignment. Your life has a plot; your years have a theme. You can do something in a manner that no one else can." Max Lucado writes those words in the opening chapter of Cure for the Common...
Best Book Ever Podcast 149
by MHill | Jun 26, 2023 | Best Book Ever Podcast, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Rereading Series, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I was invited back to one of my favorite book podcasts, The Best Book Ever Podcast, hosted by Julie Strauss. This was my third appearance on the podcast and we discussed one of my all-time favorite novels, The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber. Faber's...
Rereading The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
by MHill | Jun 20, 2023 | 2023 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Rereading Series, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
"The rhetoric of a sermon was one thing; his wife's grim reality was another. Civilizations did not vanish smoothly and easefully; empires did not set like suns: empires collapsed in chaos and violence. Real people got pushed around, beaten up, robbed, made destitute....
Book Review 50: Why Jesus? by Ravi Zacharias
by MHill | Feb 22, 2014 | 2014 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Nonfiction
I must admit I did not think my first review for 2014 would be a non-fiction book. Since I tend to read more fiction than non-fiction and all my reviews reflect that truth. Anyway, there is always a book that jumps out at you and asks to be read and reviewed. Why...
Introduction to the Book of Titus
by MHill | Feb 22, 2014 | Study of Titus
A few years ago, I decided that I would I do online bible studies for the lesser known books of the Bible. It seems even amongst Christians, we have our favorite books of the Bible. From the Gospels to Paul's most popular letters (Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, 1...
Book Review 35: The Unspeakable by Tessa Stockton
by MHill | Feb 4, 2013 | 2013 Book Reviews, Book Reviews
My first review of the new year is from a new novelist I had not read before. I enjoy discovering new authors and trying out someone outside of the mainstream of contemporary fiction is one of the great pleasures of reading fiction. The Unspeakable by Tessa Stockton...
Habakkuk 3:1-19 (Habakkuk’s Prayer)
by MHill | Dec 8, 2012 | Study of Habakkuk
O Lord, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O Lord, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy. God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His splendor covered the heavens,...
Habakkuk: An Introduction
by MHill | Nov 18, 2012 | Study of Habakkuk
Last summer, I did an online Bible Study on the Book of Ecclesiastes(my favorite book) and now I'm going to write and post a study on the Book of Habakkuk. Let's face it, many Christians when they open their bibles don't go looking for the Book of Habakkuk for their...