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I recently partnered up with Making Work at Home Work as a blogger. Expanding and Contracting: Managing Your Stress Level By Mary M. Byers My work is seasonal. I make about 30% of my income for the entire year in one month! That’s the good news. The bad news is that it can be stressful getting through such a busy time. That’s where the concept of “Expanding and Contracting” comes in. Expanding and contracting requires making a conscious decision regarding how big your life view is going to be at any given time. For example, I once had a speaking engagement in my home town. Since my mother lived there,Read More →

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This month, the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour is featuring Imaginary Jesus by Matt Mikalatos, starring Matt Mikalatos, and published by Tyndale. This is a thought-provoking mildly amusing tissues-grabber that will challenge your Christology (your beliefs about who Jesus is) and your general world view and theology as well. Mildly amusing may be an understatement. It provoked me to laughter twice, not an easy feat. However, truthfully,  I am not sure what it’s doing on this tour, as it is not even a novel, let alone speculative fiction. It’s actually a non-fiction theology book (read: sermon) disguised as a semi-autobiographical novel, with someRead More →

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Dear Andrea, What’s the difference between Christianity and Christendom? I thought they were synonyms. Signed, Arthur Author Dear Author, Let’s consult merriam-webster.com: Christianity–1 : the religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the Bible as sacred scripture, and professed by Eastern, Roman Catholic, and Protestant bodies 2 : conformity to the Christian religion 3 : the practice of Christianity Christendom: 1 : Christianity 2 : the part of the world in which Christianity prevails So, unless the person was using the word Christendom geographically, if they made a distinction between Christianity and Christendom, it is one they made up, most likely to distinguish between their concept of a “good” Christian and Christians they consider it acceptable to hate. Mind you, anyone whoRead More →

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Grace Bridges of Splashdown Books is seeking Advanced Readers for possible endorsement for Andrea and Adam Graham’s first novel, Tales of the Dim Knight, a superhero spoof. The book is tentatively set for release September 1. Electronic reader copies will available August 1. “I’m excited to acquire this laugh-a-minute adventure by a phenomenal husband-and-wife team,” says Grace Bridges, Publisher of Splashdown Books. In Tales of the Dim Knight, Dave Johnson is a mild mannered janitor by night, ultimate superhero fanboy by day until an alien symbiot enhances all his human abilities, including his imagination, giving him the power to create anything he envisions. The opportunitiesRead More →