The “Chicken Soup For The Soul" series has been an unqualified success. It has generated over eighty best-sellers. The first book alone sold eight million copies. The “chicken soup" trademark has b...
When Joel Achenbach wrote his fascinating book Why Things Are he whimsically added a subtitle: "Answers to Every Essential Question in Life." The sub-title was, of course, written in jest. The book an...
Many pastors are intimidated by the thought of preaching all the way through an entire book of the Bible. Some fear that congregational excitement will be hard to sustain and that pastor and congregat...
Two writers who were bitter rivals were both attending the same party. One had recently had a book published, and the other commented to him, “I read your new book, and liked it. Who wrote it for you?...
Dick Bass and Frank Wells became the first persons to climb the tallest mountain on each continent. They wrote a book about their adventures called "Seven Summits." Now Bass has written another book c...
Many Christians wear a WWJD band on their arms. This stands for the question, "What Would Jesus Do?" This question goes all the way back to a book written by Charles Sheldon entitled, In His Steps. Th...
The Book of Kells is one of the most beautiful and revered illustrated manuscripts of the scriptures. A beautiful book with text by Ben MackworthPraud tells its remarkable story. The copyists displaye...
The oldest surviving Irish manuscript is a fragmentary copy of the Book of Psalms. Before they went into battle, Celtic armies carried it around their troops three times to ensure victory. While we wo...
Alan Greenspan acknowledged in his recent book, The Age of Turbulence, "There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did, they wouldn’t be there. But with close to two hundred tho...
Time for Life is the title of a new book by James Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey. In the book they say that while Americans feel more rushed they actually have more leisure time than ever before -- near...
In his book What's Good About This News? (Westminster John Knox Press), David Bartlett tells this story: "My wife and I have friends who have a wonderfully mixed family, mixed in part because one of ...
With God in the Crucible: Preaching Costly Discipleship is an Abingdon Press book that contains sermons by Peter Storey, former President of the Methodist Church of South Africa and Bishop of the Joha...
The book, Significa, tells of Sir Henry Morgan, the famous pirate, who once won a libel suit against a man who called him-of all things--a pirate. The man was John Esquemeling, one of Morgan's former ...
Many Christians wear a WWJD band on their arms. This stands for the question, "What Would Jesus Do?" ...
A new book was released with the provocative title, The 50-Mile Rule: Your Guide to Infidelity and Extramarital Etiquette. The author told one interviewer that the book contains "serious information...
Bad Breaks A boy in Decatur, Illinois, was deeply interested in photography. He answered an ad in a magazine, ordering a book on photography. The publisher made a mistake and sent him instead a boo...