"In this day and age, it may seem anachronistic to aspire to eternal works, or to ask for help from God with a painting or a poem. But we do not have any chance of accomplishing the first without the second." E. Lily Yu wrote the above sentence in the last section of...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 168: Eat Fast Feast by Jay W. Richards
by MHill | Aug 3, 2025 | 2025 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Christianity, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Nonfiction, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Fasting is a practice I have become interested in recently. I have done several stints of intermittent fasting over the past couple of years and can see the benefits of giving my body a break from the diet I have eaten for most of my life. Also, my local church in San...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 156: You’ll Get Through This by Max Lucado
by MHill | Nov 17, 2024 | 2024 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Max Lucado, Nonfiction, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
"Life turns every person upside down. No one escapes unscathed. Not the woman who discovers her husband is having an affair. Not the businessman whose investments are embezzled by a crooked colleague. Not the teenager who discovers that a night of romance has resulted...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 155: Master of One by Jordan Raynor
by MHill | Oct 31, 2024 | 2024 Book Reviews, Christianity & Art, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Nonfiction
An old age question gets examined in Master of One by Jordan Raynor. Is less truly better? Raynor presents his argument in the book by drawing on biblical teachings, anecdotes of various individuals who have harmonized their Christian faith and careers, and his own...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 149: Art For God’s Sake by Philip Graham Ryken
by MHill | Aug 12, 2024 | 2024 Book Reviews, Christianity & Art, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
The tenuous relationship between art (in all its forms) and Christianity has always fascinated me. Especially American Evangelical Christianity. I’m someone who is a believer in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and have attempted my entire adult life as a Christian...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 139: Culture Care by Makoto Fujimara
by MHill | Apr 21, 2024 | 2024 Book Reviews, Makoto Fujimara, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Nonfiction, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
"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, Christianity & Art, 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, Max Lucado, 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...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 131: Grace by Max Lucado
by MHill | Nov 5, 2023 | 2023 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Max Lucado, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
"Grace is God's best idea. His decision to ravage a people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly---what rivals it? Of all his wondrous works, grace, in my estimation, is the magnum opus." Max Lucado writes this claim in this first paragraph of his...
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...