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Welcome to the December 13th, 2007 edition of carnival of Christian advice. questions Jenny presents Choosing Religion posted at the so called me, wondering how her children will decide about religion as she is an atheist and the family background religiously mixed. Hal Sommerschield, Ph.D. presents Help-How Do Parents Stop Thinking About Their Children? posted at North Star Mental Fitness Blog. By thinking, Hal means worrying incessantly. answers Kevin presents Teaching Kids The Meaning of Christmas posted at More4kids. Sunny presents What is the Meaning of Advent? posted at Observation and Principles, saying, “Advent is a time for preparation and anticipation for the coming ofRead More →

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This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing What Lies Within (Multnomah Fiction, November 20, 2007) by Karen Ball ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Karen Ball, a bestselling novelist, is also the editor behind several of today’s bestselling Christian novels. Blending humor, poignancy, and honesty, Karen’s writing style is a powerful force for revealing God’s truth. She lives in Oregon with her husband, Don, and Bodhan, a mischief-making Siberian husky, and Dakota, an Aussie-terrier mix. ABOUT THE BOOK: Kyla Justice has arrived. Her company, Justice Construction, is one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful companies in the Pacific Northwest. And yet, something is missing. NotRead More →

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This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing AURALIA’S COLORS (WaterBrook Press September 4, 2007) by Jeffrey Overstreet ABOUT THE AUTHOR: By day, Jeffrey Overstreet writes about movies at LookingCloser.org and in publications like Christianity Today, Paste, and Image. His adventures in cinema are chronicled in his book Through a Screen Darkly. By night, he composes fictional worlds all his own. Living in Shoreline, Washington, with his wife, Anne, a poet, he is a senior staff writer for Response Magazine at Seattle Pacific University. Auralia’s Colors is his first novel. He is now hard at work on many new stories, including three more strandsRead More →

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Today, the CSFF tour is wrapping up on Stephen Lawhead‘s latest in the King Raven trilogy, Scarlet. I just *finally* got to “the end.” For those who don’t know, this is his retelling of Robin Hood, reset in the Welsh countryside during the very real turbulent times of 1080-1100 A.D, with the injustice of Forrest Law and the Church corrupted by power-hungry blasphemers. Let me say this was my first blush with Lawhead, and going in, I had only the vague notion that, based on what I’d heard from others, that Lawhead is one of the masters. For the most part, he lived up toRead More →

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Through Wednesday, the crew at the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy tour are tackling Scarlet, the second book of the Raven King (er, King Raven) trilogy by Stephen Lawhead. I haven’t finished it yet, but I’m hoping to have my own review up before the tour is over. For now, Grace Bridges has a perceptive review up at the Lost Genre Guild blog.