Ann Henderson Hart
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In the Church: Finding Common Ground Across Denominations
Playwright Eugene O’Neill, who was reared on the road by actor/parents who were performing in various cities, lamented of his unstable life: “I was born in a hotel room and God-damn, I’ll die in a hotel room.” While O’Neill turned his tortured experience into great art, including the memorable Long Day’s Journey into Night, he […]
‘From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story’ by Mark A. Noll
Mark Noll, professor of history at theUniversity of Notre Dame and former long-time professor at Wheaton College, has written a compelling spiritual memoir. The book is a personal and professional journey into the author’s deepening appreciation of the gospel and how it is communicated worldwide. Along the way, we are introduced to the people, institutions, […]
“Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth” by Hilary Spurling
One of history’s most famous missionary kids, writer Pearl Buck, journeyed from China’s remotest provinces to literary fame in New York, and then to an extraordinary home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There she adopted several mixed-race children and championed the needs of the underclass around the world. The blond-haired child (called the “blue-eyed demon” by […]
Point of Contact
Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s crime thrillers have built an enthusiastic worldwide audience, selling more than 35 billion copies to date. The anticipation leading up to the recent release of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the third in his Millennium Trilogy, is impressive. In fact, only the readers of Charles Dickens and J. K. […]
Points of Contact
In 2008 during the annual book fair in Frankfurt, Germany, novelist Orhan Pamuk criticized how the Turkish government treats writers and artists. He was well aware that Turkey’s president, Abdullah Gul, was in the audience that day: “A century of banning and burning books, of throwing writers into prison or killing them or branding them […]
