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The Forge: A Conversation with Chris Fabry For a while now, Chris Fabry has been the go-to person for the Kendricks Brothers movie novelizations. Listen in as Fabry discusses the relationship, what writing a novelization [...]

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Loving Adopted Children Well: A 5 Love Languages Approach Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages started as pastoral counseling for couples but has become an international phenomenon for understanding relationships and developing loving connections between [...]

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Lead Like the Real You: A Conversation with Dr. Amy Orr-Ewing Written in the form of letters to a younger woman, Dr. Amy Orr-Ewing’s Lead Like the Real You encourage young women leaders to take [...]

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Empowered to Repair: A Conversation with Dr. Brenda Salter-McNeil  Over a lifetime of work in racial reconciliation, Dr. Brenda Salter-McNeil has come to believe that we must go beyond reconciliation to reparation. In Empowered [...]

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The Conversation | Bryan Loritts Josh Olds: For people who haven’t read the book, give us a brief overview. Bryan Loritts: I tried to tap into just this felt need that all of us have [...]

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 The Conversation | Prasanta Verma Josh Olds: Your book is titled Beyond Ethnic Loneliness. But before we go beyond that, we have to understand what it is. And I think for a lot of [...]

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Growing up in conservative evangelicalism, I had always been taught that a transgender gender identity could not be part of a Christian worldview. However, when I began to actually critically think about the theological arguments [...]

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 Racism is one of those forms of injustice that–rightfully–has been at the forefront of national (and international) conversation. But a form of injustice that often gets overlooked is injustice against a marginalized people group [...]

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Matt Mikalatos is one of my favorite people that I’ve never met in person. His online presence exudes love and he’s always kind, but that doesn’t mean he’s a pushover or lacks conviction. While most [...]

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Chris Fabry is the host of Chris Fabry Live and a five-time Christy Award winner. His latest novel is Saving Grayson. Listen in as Josh and Chris talk about the book. The Conversation | Chris [...]

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The Conversation This transcript excerpt has been lightly edited for clarity and conciseness. Josh Olds: Give me your elevator pitch for this book. What’s it about? Why should people read it? Kaitlyn Schiess: Yeah, so [...]

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The Conversation The following is an interview excerpt that has been lightly edited for the sake of conciseness and clarity. Josh Olds: Now I want to start and I hope this doesn’t sound confrontational, because [...]

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Joel Rosenberg is back! After a year without a new Marcus Ryker novel, Rosenberg return with The Libyan Diversion. It’s Marcus Ryker’s fifth adventure and the third time we’ve had Joel on the podcast program. [...]

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Storytelling is much more than writing. In fact, for most of human history, storytelling has come through the spoken word. How can we get back those oral storytelling roots in modern communication? In The Art [...]

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When the COVID-19 pandemic began, it accelerated something that I had been seeing in churches. People were leaving and they weren’t coming back. When COVID forced people out of the normal routine, they were able [...]

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Gender identity has recently become part of the “culture war” battles that play out in the media, in our culture, and in our churches. How should Christians respond? How should we talk about the concept [...]

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It’s been over a decade since the Left Behind series concluded, but #1 NYT bestselling author Jerry Jenkins has continued to write, with his latest—Dead Sea Conspiracy—being the sequel to his 2018 novel, Dead Sea [...]

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It’s not normal for books that I read to be the subject of conversation before I read them. When I shared on social media that I was reading Jonny Rashid’s Jesus Takes a Side, reaction [...]

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If God is calling women to lead, what’s holding them back? Susan Harris Howell has spent her academic life investigating this question and the answer that she’s come to is gendered socialization. That is, society [...]

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On January 6, 2021, Senate Chaplain Dr. Barry Black spent several hours in an undisclosed location with many United States Senators as they took shelter from insurrectionists who had overrun the Capitol building. In the [...]

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Have you ever read some of the stories of women in Scripture and thought that the traditional interpretation of their narratives just didn’t seem quite right? Eve bears the blame for all sin? Bathsheba complicit [...]

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What’s it like to lose everything, leave your home country, and step out in faith with no safety net? What about raising (and homeschooling!) seven creative children? How about being the middle of the contemporary [...]

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For forty-five years, Joni Eareckson Tada’s memoir of the years after the diving accident that left her paraplegic has remained in print and read by millions. Reading the latest anniversary edition, I wondered if Joni’s [...]

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Attachment science is both revolutionary and simple. Basically, it states that humans were created for relationships, or, as attachment science founder John Bowlby called it “lasting psychological connectedness between humans.” Of course, this is what [...]

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From the first pages of Recovering Racists, I was transfixed by Idelette McVicker’s authenticity and vulnerability as she shared about the liberating nature of declaring oneself a recovering racist. Her book is mind-opening and paradigm-shifting [...]

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Racial issues have rightfully been at the forefront of Christian conversation for the past several years. Not that the racial is just now an issue but that, just now, the church in America is finally [...]

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Marriage books. Ever since the LaHaye’s The Act of Marriage, Christian marriage books have been come and gone and almost all of them have been from a conservative, complementarian, how-to perspective. In Choosing Us, Brian [...]

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Singer, songwriter, Bible teacher, television host, children’s author…Sheila Walsh has done it all. And the latest thing she’s done is a beautiful children’s book meant to teach kids about the comforting nature of God’s presence. [...]

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It seems like news media everywhere are talking about “The Great Resignation.” In the wake of COVID-19 lockdowns, workers realized that they didn’t want to go back to “normal.” Normal wasn’t working. And business leaders [...]

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I picked up God Gets Everything God Wants because I didn’t think I agreed with the title’s assumption, but by the end of the book I found myself nodding along with Katie Hays and murmuring [...]

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With the opening lines of The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water, I knew it was a book I needed to read in one sitting. It’s themes of how story shapes us, and how we [...]

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The murder of George Floyd seemed like a watershed moment. More people than ever before were protesting, calling for justice, and ready to dismantle unjust systems. With that came an influx of a lot of [...]

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It’s been four years since Francine Rivers last released a novel and thirty years since her enduring classic, Redeeming Love. Now, in the space of two months, Rivers is releasing a novel—The Lady’s Mine—and seeing [...]

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I don’t know if you’ve looked out the window recently but…it’s been quite the wild ride these past few years. Not just the pandemic, but a whole host of things has Christianity splitting apart at [...]

The post When Everything’s on Fire: A Conversation with Brian Zahnd appeared first on Life Is Story.

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“Look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church website. If you find it, run as fast as you can…am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!” – Glenn Beck In [...]

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For over forty years, Philip Yancey has written about faith. You don’t a career that lasts that long and has been so successful without intense personal motivation. Throughout his writing, Yancey has shared parts of [...]

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Micah Wilder set off on his missionary journey to convert everyone he spoke with to the Mormon faith. Instead, an encounter with a Baptist pastor opened his eyes to the Jesus he never knew—one quite [...]

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For well over a decade now, Joel Rosenberg has had his finger on the pulse of the Middle East. His debut novel The Last Jihad opens with terrorists hijacking an airplane to fly into important [...]

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A few months ago, I began a doctoral program in ministerial leadership. The overarching project for the degree is a dissertation on any subject related to leadership and ministry. After a month of prayer and [...]

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In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said that “It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday.” Almost sixty years later and his words continue to ring mostly [...]

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Hinge Moments. Whether you’ve been preparing for one for a long time or whether one takes you by surprise, they can be scary to navigate and difficult to get through. University president and sociologist D. [...]

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Susie Finkbeiner is a Life is Story favorite! A few months ago, we had the opportunity to sit down with her and talk about The Nature of Small Birds. It’s a beautiful, relational story told [...]

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When you ask the world about the church, what you hear is often not complimentary. Christians are hypocrites is maybe the most common. In the past few years especially, the evangelical church’s drive for political [...]

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In 2018, Matt Mikalatos released book one of his fantasy trilogy The Sunlit Lands. Imagine, if you will, that C.S. Lewis was writing to teenagers instead of elementary schoolchildren and you’ll have a pretty good [...]

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Child loss affects more families than we know, because it’s something that’s rarely discussed—and even more rarely discussed in a way that’s helpful and healing. I’m so thankful for Hallie Scott’s willingness to share her [...]

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I almost didn’t read Permission to be Black because I knew that I—a white man—was not the primary audience. But as the father of a Black son who realizes the need for him to have [...]

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Chris Fabry had his start in small-town radio and years later—now with his own nationally syndicated show and dozens of bestselling novels—he’s returning that nostalgic past in A Piece of the Moon. After reading the [...]

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With the YA dystopian market so crowded, it can be difficult to find authors whose voice is truly their own. Everybody wants to be the next Hunger Games or Divergent that they fail to give [...]

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If you grew up in the church, you probably know the name Bill Myers. Bill’s been a creator of Christian media for decades, fiction and non-fiction, for children and adults. You might know him from [...]

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How do you give generously when you’re in need yourself? Kevin Wiebe’s Faithful in Small Things looks at a side of generosity and poverty alleviation that’s often not considered. What if poverty relief was best [...]

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We here at Life is Story believe that…well…that life is Story—everyone’s story matters, is worth being told, and worth knowing. Everyone has a story, but very few ever put that story on paper and in words. [...]

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From 1983 to 1999, Darryl Strawberry wowed crowds with his flashy style, sound fundamentals, and electric play. But all the success belied a deep struggle in his personal life, which begin to push through into [...]

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Christopher J.H. Wright completely revolutionized the way I looked at the Old Testament with his seminal Old Testament Ethics for the People of God. It directly led to a closer study of the Law, which [...]

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There is perhaps no bigger social issue within Christianity—or within secular culture—than the evolving ideas around same-sex attraction. Within the church, many remain rooted to their traditional convictions that Scripture does not condone same-sex marriage [...]

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Despite the title, this book isn’t so much a reflection on Christianity in a post-Trump world or where the evangelical church goes from here. It’s a thoughtful memoir of what Heidi Neumark’s ministry and congregation [...]

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Who Will Be a Witness? is one of those books I’ll come back to time and time again. Deeply theological yet deeply practical, Drew Hart offers an outright manifesto of the church’s need to be [...]

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I’ve had a lot of conversations this year about racial justice. Particularly in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, the white evangelicals I know have found themselves increasingly uncomfortable but unsure of how to proceed. [...]

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A while back, I had John Kingston on the podcast to talk about his book American Awakening. What I didn’t know was that the day we were talking, he was getting ready to launch a [...]

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Not many authors can successfully make the switch from writing historical romance to contemporary thriller and—if I can be brutally honest—I wasn’t sure how Siri Mitchell would do. A lot of this was based in [...]

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As I write this post, the first debate in the 2020 Presidential election is underway and it’s underscoring the prophetic nature of Carrie Lloyd’s call for a noble renaissance. Carrie believes we’ve lost our sense [...]

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I’ve done hundreds of interviews and this is one of my favorite conversations of all time. Dr. Brenda is an absolute delight and it was an honor to speak with her about racial justice, particularly [...]

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I’ve been diving into a lot of non-fiction recently, with the terrible side effect of not having as much time for fiction. It’d been a while since my last Christian fiction novel when I picked [...]

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It seems like it’s a simple question with a simple answer. Is Jesus Truly God? Yes. Next question, please. But it’s a question far from settled in the realm of apologetics. We need more than [...]

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The church I grew up in was part of what’s called the Restoration Movement. Led by Barton Stone and Alexander Campbell, the movement had the desire to unite the church and do away with denominationalism. [...]

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American Awakening is more than just a book. It’s a movement. A campaign for the soul of America. Resisting today’s onslaught of anxiety, isolation, and depression, American Awakening instead celebrates the life that’s truly Life, [...]

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Over the last four years, I—an evangelical pastor—have felt less and less connected to my church tradition because my church tradition suddenly became more and more about Donald Trump. I have felt alone. Very alone. [...]

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As a youth pastor, family discipleship is at the core of my ministry philosophy. The job of the parent is to disciple. The job of the youth pastor is to support, teach, mentor, and do [...]

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The day before I was to interview Joe Rigney and talk about Strangely Bright, I was working on interview prep and making sure I had everything I needed put together. I stepped away for a [...]

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Every once in a while, I’ll stumble upon a part of Scripture that’s unexpected. Whether is something weird, gross, off-color, or something else—and there’s a lot to be seen—it’ll make me sit back and contemplate [...]

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Rachelle Dekker has jumped from genre to genre throughout her writing career, but her work thematically seems to always come back to question of identity and humanity. I called Rachelle to talk about her upcoming [...]

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I picked this book up based on the title and nothing else. I had long been disillusioned with the American Dream, even as I still harbored a secret desire for it. My social and political [...]

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Biblical fiction is a difficult genre. There are so many expectations, limitations, and interpretations that an author must carefully weave through—all while imaginatively going “beyond the text” to bring the story to life. In recent [...]

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When Life is Story relaunched, we did so from scratch. As the site has grown (over 15k visitors this month!), I’ve started to work on reformatting or republishing our years of archives. Almost immediately, I [...]

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There’s great power in a good story. Stories bring us together, help us find common ground, take us on a common journey. In Stories That Bind Us, Susie Finkbeiner weaves a compelling relational narrative about [...]

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If you’ve ever gone searching for a new Bible, you know that the process can be overwhelming. Not only do you have dozens of English language translations to choose from, but there’s also dozens of [...]

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The world of Scripture is vastly different than my life here in the 21st century western world. As I’ve spent my life digging into Scripture, I’ve learned that a key to interpreting it well is [...]

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Middle-grade fiction isn’t exactly my top genre, but when I saw the cover of The Edge of Everywhen, I mentally put it in my “possibilities” pile. Just a few days afterward, the book’s publicist reached out [...]

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In 2010, Ted Dekker closed out The Lost Books in a stunning fashion, returning for a two-book salvo that picks up where the initial four-book set (Chosen, Infidel, Renegade, and Chaos) left off. These final [...]

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Blast back in time to 2010 when Ted Dekker promised to give readers another trilogy in the vein of the Circle—but with a Tosca Lee twist. The Books of Mortals (Forbidden, Mortal, and Sovereign) take [...]

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I don’t typically read women’s fiction. I am, after all, a thirty-year-old man. I’m not the target demographic. And yet, when the publisher contacted me to ask if I’d consider reading Beth Vogt’s The Best [...]

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Join Mike Nawrocki (co-creator of VeggieTales) and Josh Olds as they sit down for a discussion of Nawrocki’s new and upcoming projects, from the latest books in the Dead Sea Squirrels to brand new VeggieTales [...]

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What do you think of when you hear the term “monastic rhythm”? Is it all chanting in Latin, burlap robes, and communal living in the medieval times? Or is there something from the Benedictines we [...]

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Most devotionals tend toward encouragement or self-improvement. They’re simple, light-hearted reads perfect for the beginning of the day. The Insanity of Sacrifice takes that tried and tested formula and turns it upside down. This isn’t [...]

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The best way to describe The New Testament in its World is massive. It’s one of those volumes that literally stands on its own, a compendium of a lifetime of research. But it’s also accessible—not [...]

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If there was an award for oddest genre mashup, the Peril in Plain Space series just might take the top award. Following in the vein of books like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer or Pride and [...]

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It took a whole recession to keep me from student loan debt. I was a middle-class kid from a small town who never really thought much about college. You go, you pay as much as [...]

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On July 30, 1967, Joni Eareckson’s life changed forever, leading to her greatest blessings and greatest sufferings. She misjudged the shallowness of the water in the Chesapeake Bay, dove in, and was paralyzed. She was [...]

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“Our minds do not work the same way as human minds; we form beliefs about the world in ways that are very different from the ways that the minds of humans form beliefs. But this [...]

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I first met Kevin Kaiser at the Nashville Gathering in 2009, where he served as right-hand man to none other than Ted Dekker. Through the years, Kevin has forged a path through media relations and [...]

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Life is story. You know that’s a key theme around here. But, more than that, life is stories. Life is an anthology collection of happenings each influenced and informed by the stories before and around. [...]

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Wynter Roth went into the bunker thinking she had stopped the apocalypse, believing that the antidote to the disease ravaging the United States would be distributed. But the world she finds when the bunker opens [...]

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Diary of a Jackwagon | Tim Hawkins Somewhere in Illinois, sometime in 2015 (the exact date is lost to history), Tim Hawkins was bored on his tour bus, so he gave me a call. Or [...]

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You’ll Get Through This | Max Lucado Grief is universal. It touches all of us at one point or another. From the big to the small—though none of it ever seems small at the time. [...]

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Look and Live | Matt Papa A few years ago, Josh Olds caught up with author and recording artist Matt Papa to discuss the art of worship. In 2009, Matt’s album Your Kingdom Come charted [...]

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The Last Operative | Jerry Jenkins In the first-ever Life is Story interview, Josh Olds picked up the phone to talk with 21-time NYT Bestselling Novelist, Left Behind author, and Christian Writer’s Guild owner Jerry [...]

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An Exclusive Interview with Rachelle and Ted Dekker Grace has long lived in fear. She has been in waiting: waiting to inherit the earth, waiting behind this red rope, waiting in fear that the day [...]

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The Life is Story Podcast After more than a month in the making, Life is Story is relaunching our acclaimed podcast, featuring interviews with your favorite authors. And we’re dropping a whole season’s worth of [...]

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