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When God Doesn’t Fix It, Laura Story Finds Hope in a Broken Story

When God Doesn’t Fix It,

When God Doesn’t Fix It is Laura Story’s memoir about a brain tumor that was removed, a recovery that went … Read more

History of the Arabs Summary, Hitti’s Dazzling Classic Has Blind Spots

History of the Arabs Summary

History of the Arabs by Philip K. Hitti is the 1937 Princeton classic that taught the English-speaking world who the … Read more

Pope Francis Hope (Spera) Review: The First Papal Memoir That’s Actually Worth Reading

Hope (Spera) by Pope Francis summary

Pope Francis Hope Spera The Autobiography offers an unusually personal look at the life, faith, struggles, and papacy of Jorge … Read more

The Untouchables by B. R. Ambedkar: Summary & Analysis

The Untouchables by B. R. Ambedkar summary review

The Untouchables by B. R. Ambedkar asks one of the most difficult questions in the history of Indian society: who … Read more

Why I Killed the Mahatma: Godse’s Defence

Why I Killed the Mahatma review

Koenraad Elst’s Why I Killed the Mahatma: Uncovering Godse’s Defence forces you to confront a truth that mainstream Indian history … Read more

A History of God: A Difficult, Essential Read for Our Fractured Times

A History of God summary review

A History of God by Karen Armstrong is not a book that comforts you. It does not hand you a … Read more

Hagarism Review, the Brilliant Wrong Book That Upended Islamic Studies

Hagarism Review

Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World is the 1977 Cambridge University Press book in which Patricia Crone and Michael … Read more

The Death of a Prophet Review, 11 Old Sources That Unsettle 632 CE

Death of a Prophet Review

The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad’s Life and the Beginnings of Islam is Stephen J. Shoemaker’s 2011 … Read more

No God but God Review, a Brilliant Islam History That Argues Too Hard

No God but God Review

No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam is Reza Aslan‘s retelling of fourteen centuries of Islamic … Read more

Halal Sex Review: Muslim Women’s Intimate Lives Exposed & Silenced

Halal Sex Review

Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America by Sheima Benembarek is the book that finally breaks … Read more

The Reality Behind Fears of Islam In Europe

Islam In Europe

Growing alarm over Islam is taking hold in multiple European nations. Roughly half the people in several countries now view … Read more

Profits Prophets Coaches and Kings: Why Jared Diamond’s Latest Book Will Frustrate You and Fascinate You at the Same Time

Profits Prophets Coaches and Kings summary review

Did you ever wonder whether the person sitting in the Oval Office actually changes your life, or whether you’d be … Read more

Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey: A Chilling Look Inside the FLDS Cult That Will Haunt You

Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey summary

Can a religious leader’s absolute power turn an entire community into a prison where girls as young as 12 become … Read more

Why Does Life Feel So Empty? Arthur C. Brooks’s The Meaning of Your Life Might Surprise You

Meaning Of Your Life by Arthur C. Brooks summary review and analysis

Do you feel like you’re living in a simulation? Like you’re checking all the boxes, career, income, health, but something … Read more

When Things of the Spirit Come First Review: Beauvoir’s Forgotten Feminist Classic

When Things of the Spirit Come First Review

Did you grow up surrounded by people who talked about spirituality but lived in bad faith? I remember sitting through … Read more

Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard: A Deep Dive into Faith, Sacrifice, and the Leap into the Unknown

Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard summary review

Why does making the most meaningful decision of your life require you to abandon all certainty? That question has haunted … Read more

Is Religion Just a Neurosis? Carl Jung’s Psychology and Religion Says Something Far More Disturbing

Psychology and Religion by Carl Jung summary and review

Do you really own your mind, or does something else live inside it, pulling the strings without your permission? That … Read more

The Varieties of Religious Experience: William James’s 1902 Masterpiece

The Varieties of Religious Experience

Ever wonder why some people find profound peace in religion while others feel nothing but confusion or indifference? Why does … Read more

The Age of Reason: Why Thomas Paine’s Deist Manifesto Still Angers the Faithful

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine summary, review and analysis

Can a book written in a French prison cell change how you see God, the Bible, and everything you thought … Read more

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Nietzsche

Human All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche summary review

Do you ever catch yourself believing something simply because everyone around you believes it, without ever questioning why you hold … Read more

Twilight of the Idols: Why Nietzsche’s Hammer Still Hits Harder Than Most Modern Philosophy

Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche summary and review

Do you ever feel like the values you’ve been handed—morality, truth, even happiness itself—are borrowed from someone else’s playbook, and … Read more

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