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Is there good news to be had about the end of Christian America? According to Gabe Lyons book The Next Christians: How a Generation is Restoring the Faith, the answer is yes. Sadly, Lyons' view point on this is based upon his interpretation of... [Read on]
Picking up where he left off with UnChristian, Gabe Lyons tells the story of Christians doing there best to live into the mission of Christ in the midst of a seemingly ever changing theological landscape. What he offers is hope. If... [Read on]
Many Christians have grave concerns about the moral decline in America. This country was founded on Judeo-Christian values from which we draw our moral code and sense of law and justice. Author Gabe Lyons began to notice that the perceptions m... [Read on]
A chance to go to France and work in a real French bakery and study to become a real French pastry chef seems like a dream come true for Lexi Stuart. She's ready for some adventure and some space from her potential boyfriend, Dan. Lexi settles... [Read on]
At seventeen, Kristen Anderson had experienced death of her three of her close friends and her grandmother. When she put her faith and trust in a close friend, he betrayed her by raping her. Kristen felt as though she had nothing to live for, and... [Read on]
Title: The Next Christians Author: Gabe Lyons Publisher: Doubleday First Copyright: 2010 Hardback Price: $19.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-52984-6 General Subject Matter: Christian Living Theme: A new movement to “restore” biblical... [Read on]
I waited long for this book, let me tell you. Let me also tell you: It was well worth the wait. Fifteen years ago, Tippers father, Verrin Schope, disappeared from Chiril, leaving behind nothing but his artwork, his estate, and the echo o... [Read on]
I cant imagine feeling so desperate about my life that I would think that that laying on railroad tracks to kill myself would solve my problems. But thats how Kristen Anderson felt when she was seventeen years old. Things didnt turn out ... [Read on]
Kristen Jane Anderson struggled with depression and felt hopeless enough to attempt suicide by lying in the path of a train. The fact that she survived is a miracle itself, but her journey after that time with overcoming depression is another... [Read on]
Gabe Lyons didn't just write a book based on research. He has lived it. Beginning with his own personal journey from the bowels of the fundamentalist Christian heartland, to being ashamed to call himself a Christian, to now a new hope of... [Read on]