John Blase

Glorious Weakness

Christian Living

““Alia Joy begins her book by saying it may not be for everyone. Fair enough, and so I began to read. As I turned the final pages I had to disagree with her—no, your book is for all of us, and your timing couldn’t be better. In a day when we’re witnessing the destructive darkness of power, Alia points to the redeeming light of weakness. Far from a message of ‘Woe is me,’ she whispers, ‘Greater is he.’ It is to our benefit to listen.”

Placemaker

Christian Living

“universal.” I kept thinking of that while reading Christie Purifoy’s smart and beautiful book, Placemaker. Page after page of the winding path that led her family to a place called Maplehurst caused me to reflect on my own life, the places I’ve sought to make, and how they in equal measure ended up making me.”

Where I End

History & Biography

“Katherine Elizabeth Clark says, 'I will not try to explain suffering.' She stays true to her words. What she does instead is show us what suffering looks like, the kind of suffering that happens when something gets broken amid children on a playground, and that something is you. But in addition, she shows us what resilience looks like, what the Christian calls 'hope.' What this woman and wife and mother and daughter and friend discovers is that so much depends upon the Son of Man, hanging on a cross, embracing fully a great sadness, but also the beautiful grace of God.”