Category: Book Reviews

GOD STILL SPEAKS by John Eckhardt
Reviewed by Danielle Taylor

I consider myself an avid reader. I spent many years in church and not fully understanding the call upon my life. I would walking around in bubble seeking… searching for someone or something to tell me why I was here. I knew that I was different, and that God spoke to me all the time about many different things. However, I dared not to say such a thing because people would look at me a bit strange. Until recently, I had no understanding of the prophetic. I asked God to teach me and to direct me toward what he had for me. This journey brought me here to “GOD Still SPEAKS” by John Eckhardt.

This teaching/instructional guide reveals that  God is still speaking to the body of Christ even though many say God does not speak like he did during the times of Moses and the Prophets. At one point I considered the same thing because of my upbringing. I dove into this book ready to receive all that the Lord was about to reveal. I was blessed beyond measure.

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Reviewed by Theresa Harvard Johnson
Author Akili Kumasi

Before reading On the Outside Looking In: Hope For Separated Fathers Who Want To Be Good Fathers by Akili Kumasi, I earnestly had never considered myself a child of divorce. There were so many other challenges in the midst of my upbringing that – up until this very day – the fact that my parents divorced when I was teen had been erased from my mind. After reading this book, those memories resurfaced. I remember sitting in the courtroom horrified as I was placed on the witness stand and asked specific questions about my parents that ultimately helped decide who got what, who would pay what and with whom I would live.

This memory prompted me to highlight this statement from Kumasi’s book in which he pleads emphatically with readers: I strongly encourage everyone and anyone who can – if you can avoid divorce or separating children from living with both of their parents – please do anything and everything you can. Most importantly, for those who are not in a relationship and do not have children yet, before you even get to the question of separation, be careful not to get into any relationship that you are not 1,000 percent sure of. If you are not sure, do not gamble with the lives and generations that follow. It is not worth it.”

I must say, I agree.

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Book Reviewed by Theresa Harvard Johnson
Author Fran Clark
 

According to the New York Times, bullying has become a hot topic across the nation.[1] It is reported that 28 percent of students in the United States experience bullying in grades 6-12, and 30 percent report being bullies according to StopBullying.gov, a collaborative initiative of federal agencies dedicated to prevention, awareness and intervention. Bullying, however, can occur anywhere not just at school.

Author Fran Clark addresses this subject in her novel for youth and teens, The Meeting on the Moon. She introduces us to 11-year-old Andrew James Carmichael, a skinny, but athletic, studious young man who loves kickball, but is being tortured daily by a school bully. Like many children his age, Drew – as he is lovingly called – finds himself afraid, intimidated and humiliated beneath the brutal beatings, daily searching for a way of escape.

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