I’ve
appreciated Beth Moore’s non-fiction over the years, but her memoir was a
delightful surprise.
The description and setting dripped from the page and
transported me across the decades and into the South. With her characteristic
humor and depth, Beth told her story with vulnerability, kindness, and a
posture that made it feel like I was having coffee with a friend.
I wanted to
go slowly and linger with her words, but I also found myself turning the next page
and the next because it was so hard to put down. Highly recommend!
New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller!
An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few.
“It’s a peculiar thing, this having lived long enough to take a good look back. We go from knowing each other better than we know ourselves to barely sure if we know each other at all, to precisely sure that we don’t. All my knotted-up life I’ve longed for the sanity and simplicity of knowing who’s good and who’s bad. I’ve wanted to know this about…
I was initially intrigued by Esau's memoir because I appreciate hisNY Times opinion pieces. That same thought-provoking exploration of faith, race, and human connection is evident in this book, and I was delighted to also find a compelling story-telling voice and world-building prose.
McCaulley’s writing style is engaging and full of immersive details that made me feel as though I was witnessing events unfold in real-time. With compassion and honesty, he revisits key moments as he traces his family’s history and shared identity.
As I read, I found myself reflecting on the similarities and differences across our divergent experiences of culture, family dynamics, and circumstances within the same trajectory of growing up in the 1980s and 1990s. Highly recommend!
From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family’s search for home and hope
“A riveting book that invites you into the personal journey of one of the finest writers alive today.”—Beth Moore, New York Times bestselling author of All My Knotted-Up Life
For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty, anti-Black racism, and an absent father to earn a job as a university professor and a life in…
In what I would call a companion to Lewis’ classic The
Great Divorce, Webster offers up a modern-day descent into hell that is
theologically thought-provoking, honest, profound, and—perhaps most
surprisingly—playful.
The plot is relatively straightforward: a demon visits an
ordinary Joe & takes him to hell, where Joe must complete three challenges
to see and save his beloved twin sister, who died as a child. Along the way, Joe
is faced with the fracturing of beauty, truth & goodness, as well as
flashbacks that reveal more of his schism humanity.
The plot is compelling,
but it’s Webster’s story-telling, setting details, and multifaceted symbolism
that make this story shine, and the literary references and mythic quality had
me queuing up for a second read-through to catch the layers.
This has an unexpectedly delightful effect on the reader
of feeling like you are journeying with a beloved friend through this difficult
and shocking terrain of spoiled goodness and death and sorrow and hope-haunted
loss. Highly recommend!
Can the reality of Imago Dei eclipse the failings of a troubled protagonist? Can the Christian imagination speak to a generation captivated by Stranger Things, Squid Game, and the Marvel universe? Can the means of pop culture advance theological ends? These were just some of the questions I wrestled with during the creation of Follow the Devil / Follow the Light. What follows is a supposal, a work of fiction, a dark vision for dark times. There are fits of allegory throughout, but nothing to advance the tradition of Plato, Spencer, Bunyan, Hawthorne, etc. I have no unique access into…
In the land of story, kids go to school to learn to be the perfect character: a brave hero, a trusty sidekick, even the most dastardly villain. They dream of the day when they will live out tales written just for them.
But when an ordinary girl named Una Fairchild finds herself written into a story, she discovers that the magical land is threatened by a dark secret.
As she digs deep into Story's shadowy past, Una realizes that she is tied to the world in ways she never could have imagined—and it may be up to her to save it.
