Real Sex by Lauren Winner

June 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Synopsis:
An exploration of the meaning of chastity in the 21st century.
Review:
Real Sex is an excellent companion piece to Anna Broadway’s Sexless in the City. Winner offers a larger cultural and historical context for Broadway’s desire to live chastely, and has some ideas about why Broadway expresses some disappointment in the way she has been [...]

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Sexless in the City by Anna Broadway

May 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Synopsis:
The misadventures of a hapless twenty-something woman whose greatest fear is that she will die a virgin, and whose second greatest fear is that she’ll have sex before marriage.
Review:
I’ll let you know up front that there’s no way that I can be objective about Sexless in the City, because Anna Broadway met the woman who [...]

Popularity: 30% [?]

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Through a Screen Darkly by Jeffrey Overstreet

July 3rd, 2007 · 3 Comments

Synopsis:
A collection of essays on film by the movie critic for Christianity Today that decry the many of the knee-jerk reactions that some Christians have against popular culture and the arts.
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The Book of Jane by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt

July 2nd, 2007 · 3 Comments

Synopsis:
Jane’s always found it easy to believe in God, but when she loses everything overnight she has to learn what’s really important.
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Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

October 23rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

Synopsis:
An autobiographical collection of irreverant essays about finding Jesus in the most unlikely places, starting with super-pagan Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
Review:
I kept hearing about this book from various people whose opinion I respected, but I was a little skeptical. I am weary of efforts to make Christianity “cool” or “relevant” or “postmodern” or [...]

Popularity: 35% [?]

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