“L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.” PeopleReason Author:Caroline Leavitt
“A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year.” YearsHeartBookChanceSecretMissingMy FavoriteBrilliantPsychologicalDesperateFlatsHauntingFavorite Book Author:Caroline Leavitt
“For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians.” ChristianSufferingLeftSocialInterestCommonParticularResourcesValuableCommon Good Author:Miroslav Volf
“For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into Gods story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.” WorldNeedsStoriesHomeChristianArtistGamesMomDadDoctorsScientistExecutivesSpheresIdleGarbageCollectorsChristian FaithStay At HomeStay At Home Mom Author:Miroslav Volf
“Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.” BelieveChristianUnderstandingGroupsResponseJewTrinity Author:Miroslav Volf
“To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.” IfsNeedsFirstsTwoHappensDiesEvilReturnVictoryDeedsTriumphNew LifeTheologianPerpetratorsProtestantismInfusion Book:The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World Source: The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World
“We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.” WorldWayHumansHuman BeingsVision Author:John Clute
“Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.” FictionPiecesSupposed To BeTitlesGenreShopsUsersLocationBookstores Author:John Clute
“Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.” WritingViewsFictionWrittenOffersInnovationCrisisScience FictionConstantAngleScandalObscurity Author:John Clute