Book Reviews & Recommendations
Amanda Montell’s Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism promises a linguistic x-ray of how words recruit, bind, and radicalize. What you actually get is a brisk, darkly witty tour through classic high-control groups like Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate, and Scientology alongside modern phenomena that […]
If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to become a saint, Kate Sidley’s How to Be a Saint: An Extremely Weird and Mildly Sacrilegious History of the Catholic Church’s Biggest Names is here to enlighten you with laughter, wit, and a touch […]
Peter Beinart’s latest is not a neutral primer. It is a moral brief that asks readers to reconsider the dominant Jewish narrative of victimhood and supremacy, and to replace it with a story rooted in equality, shared safety, and the infinite value […]
Douglas Murray’s On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization arrives at a time when the world’s moral compass seems increasingly fractured. As the author of The War on the West and The Madness of Crowds, Murray has long […]
In The Well-Watered Woman: Rooted in Truth, Growing in Grace, Flourishing in Faith, author and founder of Well-Watered Women Co. Gretchen Saffles invites readers to draw from the “Well” of God’s Word and experience spiritual renewal through Scripture. The book’s message is […]
In Don’t Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table, bestselling author and pastor Louie Giglio takes on one of the most pervasive struggles in modern Christian life: the battle of the mind. Drawing inspiration from Psalm 23, Giglio explores how negative […]
John Mark Comer’s Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do as He Did is a luminous, deeply practical invitation to rediscover what it truly means to follow Jesus. Known for The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry and Live No Lies, […]
Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation is a powerful, deeply researched exploration of how a movement rooted in spiritual devotion evolved into a political and cultural powerhouse defined by patriarchy, […]
An Honest but Imperfect Reckoning with Faith, Family, and Freedom “Counting the Cost” is a memoir that dares to pull back the curtain on one of America’s most famous fundamentalist families. Written by Jill Duggar, her husband Derick Dillard, and Craig Borlase, […]
What would you do if, in the darkest moment of your life, God appeared before you? That is the haunting question at the heart of Mitch Albom’s The Stranger in the Lifeboat, a story that blurs the lines between faith and survival, […]