by Jennifer Hallmark | Mar 4, 2025 | A Smidgen of Hope, Blogs/Podcasts
Hope. Sometimes you find it in unexpected places. Like a quote from St. Augustine–a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa, born in 354 AD. St. Augustine said, “God loves each of us as if there...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Feb 28, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts
If you like fantasy (dystopian or medieval or both), action and adventure, clean romance, and deep themes, The Nightingale Trilogy by J. J. Fischer belongs on your bookshelf. After Calor and Lumen, the trilogy finishes with Memoria, a novel with a beautiful cover and...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Feb 25, 2025 | A Smidgen of Hope, Blogs/Podcasts
The beginning of 2025 has not been exactly peaceful. Many events and circumstances have made it hard to lie down at night and just relax. Rest. Those worrisome thoughts. You know the ones: Have I finished everything I was supposed to do today? Did I pray enough? Will...
by Cammi Woodall | Feb 21, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction
At six years old, I firmly believed that I was capable – if it became necessary due to an evil millionaire wanting my ‘powers’ – of leaving home by myself, travelling across the United States, and finding a mysterious mountain I’d never heard of before. Why did I...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Feb 18, 2025 | A Smidgen of Hope, Blogs/Podcasts
I desperately need hope. Bucketfuls of encouragement. Loads of laughter, joy, and peace. Just like you. My natural bent is toward being pessimistic and melancholy. I wrestle often with fear and dread, waiting for the other shoe to drop. But that’s not how God asked me...
by A.S. Hardin | Feb 14, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
When True Night Falls is the second book in C.S. Friedman’s Coldfire series. In this extraordinarily well-crafted world of Erna, True Night refers to a period when the sun is completely absent and the world is thrust into complete darkness. In this darkness, the...
