I’ve been thinking about Jesus’s promise to his followers:
My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. (John 10:10)
To whom does that apply? And where are the people who enjoy this rich and satisfying life?
Continue reading “What’s going on in the world?”
Another fascinating tale set among the tensions between the Catholic authorities and the Huguenot recluses in southern France during the seventeenth century reign of the Sun King Louis XIV.
This second book in the The Huguenot Trilogy introduces new aspects: romance and the dangers and vicissitudes of flight to the relative safety of the Protestant neighbour countries.
Continue reading “Will their stars bring them to Eden?”
Verlassen von seinen alkoholkranken Eltern und allein mit seiner Grossmutter in der unerbittlichen Winterlandschaft Kanadas aufgewachsen, erlebt der Ojibwe Junge, Saul Indian Horse, eine Kindheit voller Leid.
Continue reading “Ich musste weinen”
“Call of Freedom” by Paul C. Monk continues the saga of the Huguenot family Delpech. Having fled the oppressive dragonnade in France to find refuge in Ireland, in 1699 the family decides to brave a dangerous sea crossing and seek a new life in New York.
Continue reading “History through the eyes of New World settlers”
Larimore leads us to clandestine religious gatherings in the remote Cevennes hills of the south of France at the tail end of the seventeenth century. Jean BonDurant, a rich aristocrat who is training as an apothecary, joins open-spirited Amelia and her wolf-dog Romulus in ministering to the medical needs of the impoverished victims of persecution.
But other things are happening in secret in these Cevennes hills, revealed as Jean travels between his townhouse in Genoüillac, the family Château de Cougoussac, to the towns and villages of the region, and through bleak and dangerous mountains.
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As a child, Isobel looks on in horror as the Earl, Lord Langton, executes his father’s murderer in the yard of her father’s manor. At least, he reluctantly spares the traitor’s nephew, Thomas Lacey, whom Isobel recognises as her friend and intended husband.
In fifteenth century Yorkshire, landed gentry and their clans vie for power. Which king will they support? For the Earl, as well as Isobel’s father, Sir Geoffrey Fenton, it is clear: Edward, Duke of York, though not a strong character, is the rightful heir to the throne.
Continue reading “Female tenacity facing injustice”
Continue reading “Eine unheimliche Gottesbegegnung”Ein junger Mann zieht sich für ein Jahr in die Abgeschiedenheit der Natur zurück. Enttäuscht von Kirche und Christentum und verunsichert durch Aussagen der Wissenschaft, hat er letztlich nur eine Frage: Gibt es Gott?
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Games, von Patrick Oberholzer ist ein krasses Buch – krass in seinem übergrossen Format, krass in seiner dramatischen Gestaltung und besonders krass in seiner Botschaft. Es ist auch ein sehr lehrreiches Buch, das uns im gemütlichen Westeuropa auf die traumatischen Lebens- und Fluchterfahrungen vieler Afghanen aufmerksam machen sollte.
Continue reading “Schicksale?”
Bis zum Ende, tappen wir im Dunkeln, obwohl uns das Gespräch zwischen diesen sehr unterschiedlichen Männern sehr wohl packt. Der ältere Herr scheint verzweifelt über den Verlust seiner unfassbar treuen Frau. Der jüngere Mann erzählt von eine Reihe kurzfristiger Sexualpartnern.
Continue reading “Eine geheimnisvolle Begegnung”
In his inimitably prosaic manner, Phinn recounts the life of an ordinary boy, who met some extraordinary people, and the journey he was able to embark on as a result of the many doors opened for him in his early life.
Continue reading ““Mine was a very happy childhood””