Book Review – Raising Good Humans Every Day
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A helpful parenting book on using mindfulness strategies in parenting children.
Book Review – Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A challenging and convicting book on Christian faith and living a life of servanthood and sacrifice, which is counter to mainstream American church culture.
Book Review – Searching for Sunday
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An engaging and challenging book that is both memoir and catharsis of the author’s struggle to find connection and meaning with other Christians and the Church.
Book Review – Educated
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A collection of life stories and memories of a young woman in her experiences of the transformational power of education, friendships, and choosing self to escape the entrapments of poverty, isolation, and a dysfunctional, abusive family system.
Book Review – Eight Dates
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. One of the best books on marriage and partnership.
Book Review – Blue Like Jazz
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An unconventional and entertaining book on Christian living that confronts American Christian culture and challenges the reader to authentically pursue a relationship with Jesus.
Book Review – Living Beyond the Limits
Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A book containing inspirational stories on servanthood from a Christian perspective that mostly relate to the author’s charity, Samaritan’s Purse.
Book Review – The Hole in Our Gospel
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A Christian book that describes a gospel message that includes helping the global poor and calls for action from Christians to embrace a faith that is more authentic, demanding, and attractive.
Book Review – Man's Search for Meaning
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. Man’s Search for Meaning, while written 75 years ago, is startlingly relevant to the world we live in today. It is a superb look at surviving, forgiving and finding meaning and is a reminder and warning of atrocities that we collectively must oppose.
Book Review – Parenting from the Inside Out
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A good book for parents to better understand how their experiences have shaped their interactions with their children and the steps they can take to improve their parenting.
Book Review – The Power of Showing Up
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. An important parenting book that covers essential, foundational attachment-based parenting approaches.
Book Review – Feeling Good
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book on using CBT skills to identify and correct thought patterns that lead to depression and anxiety.
Book Review – I Hear You
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A good book on providing validation to enhance relationships.
Book Review – Feeling Great
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An exceptional book on identifying and correcting thought patterns that lead to depression and anxiety.
Book Review – How to Really Love Your Child
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. One of the best books on showing love to children.
Book Review – The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A good book on showing love to children.