Why do I read fiction? I believe these quotes will answer it for me: "The overwhelming majority of people go to literature for enjoyment, entertainment, and what we might call the refreshment value of literature. People read literature because they want to, not...
Quote 47
by MHill | Mar 14, 2012 | Quotes
"It's interesting to me that people who want you to be open-minded, only accept that when you agree with their viewpoint. I thought being open-minded allow for a diversity of viewpoints through rigorous discussion or debate. So, I've become leery of those who claim...
Music Review 3: Fred Hammond’s God, Love, and Romance
by MHill | Mar 12, 2012 | Black History Month, Marion's Favorites, Music Reviews, What is Love?, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I read from an interview prior to Fred Hammond's latest release, God, Love, and Romance that he was unsure how his fans would receive it. Well, I believe his fans should not worry about that at all and he will pick up some new fans from this excellent CD. Hammond...
Wisdom of Marion 2:8: One Body But Many Roles
by MHill | Mar 11, 2012 | Wisdom From Kammbia Column
"For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body---Jews or Greeks, slaves or free---and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For...
Book Review 19: The Christian Imagination edited by Leland Ryken
by MHill | Mar 6, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Christianity & Art, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Nonfiction, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Writing
I wrote a review for Imagine by Steve Turner and said that book along with the Bible and a couple of others that every Christian who loves the arts and literature should have in their library. Well, I'm adding The Christian Imagination edited by Leland Ryken to that...
Quote 46
by MHill | Mar 1, 2012 | Quotes
"All life, high and low, sordid and noble, vile and pure, is the province of art. Surely if the Bible is to be our standard we must admit that nothing lay outside the province of the inspired writers. A Christian writer cannot be a significant writer if his vision...
Book Review 18: S. by John Updike
by MHill | Feb 22, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews
What happens when a woman leaves her former life behind in order to seek a spiritual awakening? Well, that's the scenario in the novel S. by John Updike. S stands for Sarah Worth, the main character in the novel. She is a New England housewife who decides to leave...
Quotes 43
by MHill | Feb 4, 2012 | Quotes
"Reason is a wonderful servant, but a poor master." (Eric Weiner)
Quotes 42
by MHill | Jan 24, 2012 | Quotes
"It's easy to give grace to people you like or friends and family. But can we extend grace to those we don't like or did something wrong to us, or feel they committed a major sin, or people we don't know. That's the real question..it isn't?"
Book Review 17: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick
by MHill | Jan 20, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews
Well, I finally decided to read one of Philip K. Dick's novels. Since he's one of the giants of the science-fiction genre and I'm a reader of it, I thought the time was right to check him out. Some of you would have told me to read either Man in the High Castle or...