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Welcome to the April 3, 2007 edition of carnival of christian advice. The next Carnival will be held on May 1st. The deadline to submit your pieces is April 27th. Questioning submissions must be seeking advice on an issue, either personal or theological, which they genuinely are seeking a biblical, Christian answer to. All submissions offering advice must line up with traditional, fundamental Christian values and beliefs. Related posts must be offering information (rather than selling a product) that my readers would be interested in, such as a review of a Christian self-help book, or a conservative Christian analysis of some element of pop culture.Read More →

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Gentle readers, A couple things I wanted to note. First, my husband’s site, Adam’s Blog, has won the Thinking Blogger Award. Congratulations, Honey! Second, Karina Fabian and her husband Robert have a Catholic Science Fiction anthology, Infinite Space, Infinite God, touring with the Christian Fiction Review Blog. Update: This is my 100th post here at Ask Andrea 🙂 In Christ’s Joy, Andrea Graham

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Most nightmares come from us working out the bad stuff in life that we don’t want to deal with while awake, but not all. If a nightmare clearly doesn’t relate to anything you’ve gone or are going through, that leaves two possible sources: the devil, yes, and God.

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In Reclaiming Nick, a novel by Susan May Warren, Nick Noble returns home to ensure the family ranch stays in the family, just as the back cover said (always nice when the cover copy accurately describes the story). He’s also definitely the prodigal son (in the modern sense if not the original sense of wasteful)—which means the reader can expect sexual immorality and a violent temper in his past. I appreciated the honest handling of youthful transgressions and the damage the hot-blooded eldest Noble brother left in his wake, not to mention a man returning after his father’s death to face up to his past.Read More →

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Dear Andrea, My husband and I have been married for 11 years. Currently we are separated. He has been abusive toward the kids for years–spanking hard enough to leave swollen red hand prints on them, occassionally shoving them into walls or threatening and screaming at them. He has been sexually abusive to me even though I was open to him in every way. In the last year he raped me at least 4 times (these times were obviously and legally rape). I feel pressure to stay in the marriage, but really I just want to remain separate from him and single the rest of myRead More →