I think I’m going to move my Simmer Starters to Saturday permanently, and do my regular posts mid-week. 🙂 Re-Imaging Jesus (Rebecca LuElla Miller) – “In the same way that the re-imagers want to make out that Christians are the new Pharisees, they want to hand Jesus the winebibber and glutton tag—only that’s now apparently a positive […]
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Simmer Starters – July 18, 2015
Posted in Book Reviews, Christian Living, Controversies, Literature, Publishing, Simmer Starters on July 18, 2015 | 8 Comments »
Book Review: The Collar and the Cavvarach by Annie Douglass Lima
Posted in Book Reviews, Literature, Reviews on May 11, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Bensin, a teenage slave and martial artist, is desperate to see his little sister freed. But only victory in the Krillonian Empire’s most prestigious tournament will allow him to secretly arrange for Ellie’s escape. Dangerous people are closing in on her, however, and Bensin is running out of time. With his one hope fading quickly […]
Why Katniss Everdeen Has No Hope – But We Do
Posted in Fandoms and Geekery, Literature, Movie Reviews, Philosophy and Worldviews, Reviews, tagged films, hunger games, katniss, mockingjay, movies on November 26, 2014 | 7 Comments »
A common beef Christians have with dystopian stories is that they are hopeless. It’s common because it can be very true – dystopias are designed to display a reality where all feels lost, where people feel crushed and hopeless, and evil has all the power. So it makes sense that books and movies in this […]
Book Review: “A Time to Die” by Nadine Brandes (and GIVEAWAY!)
Posted in Blog Hops, Book Reviews, Literature, Reviews on October 16, 2014 | 2 Comments »
As soon as I heard about this book, I wanted it. A Time to Die (first in a trilogy) is a dystopian book – like The Hunger Games, Divergent, or The Giver – but by a Christian author and woven through with themes of faith. Nadine Brandes’s desire is that A Time to Die will spur readers on to live life more intentionally, […]
Three More Favorite Science Fiction TV Shows
Posted in Reviews, TV Show Reviews on April 26, 2014 | 3 Comments »
This is a follow-up to an archival post I put up when I was blogging previously, Five Favorite Science Fiction TV Shows. Read that one first if you haven’t seen it before! Listed in that posting were: Warehouse 13, Eureka, Doctor Who, Firefly/Serenity, and Battlestar Galactica (2oo4). In hindsight I have to say Firefly takes the […]
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Bethany A. Jennings is a YA speculative fiction and poetry author, a freelance editor, and a lover of artisan sandwiches. Born in SoCal, with a heart and soul raised in many different worlds, she now lives happily in New England with her husband, four children, zero pets, and a large and growing collection of tiny houseplants. She is a firm believer in the power of words to reach hurting hearts, uplift the weary, and pierce the darkness.
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