Henry Brown's Page

I'm assuming this book is considered a classic. I don't read the classics that often, so I wouldn't know. But anyway, I've heard of this one all my life, and watched part of the movie a couple times, I think. The other day, it so happened I was in the mood for literary fiction, and already having an armchair historian's interest in the 1920s, I waded in.



Story-wise, I didn't quite know what to expect. Turns out, the plot is an age-old standard about a poor boy's devotion to a… Continue



 

Back in October, I interviewed Daniel L. Carter about his book, The Unwanted, the first in an urban…

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Many prophetic scholars (including me, though I'm more of an armchair "scholar") have predicted a

catastrophic financial meltdown for decades. Today, many observers inside and outside the Church are grudgingly admitting that we're not crackpots, after all. At least not

for that prediction.

In fact, an astute observer who has never cracked a Bible…

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Most indie authors can tell you (especially if the genre of their novel isn't romance, horror or chick-lit) that getting reviews for your book is often like pulling teeth or selling ice to an Eskimo. That

certainly has been my experience. Fortunately, Hell and Gone

has received some thoughtful reviews already. But the one I discovered

today is a big one, because it's from an organization that has mucho

clout in the literary world. I've heard that librarians read…

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