Author Archives: Ordinary Servant
The Prisoner’s Wife by Asha Bandele
Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Washington Square Press Price: $15.99 Purchase: Amazon | BN Description As a favor for a friend, a bright and talented young woman volunteered to read her poetry to a group of prisoners during a Black History Month program. It was an encounter that would […]
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Tagged Abortion, African American Author, Asha Bandele, healing, incarceration, Life Sentence, Love, Marriage, Memoir, murder, Prison, Rashid, The Prisoner's Wife
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Writing My Wrongs by Shaka Senghor
Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Convergent Books Price: $14.00 Purchase: Amazon | BN Description Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural leader, he dreamed of becoming a […]
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Tagged Abuse, African American, Black, Books, broken homes, Change, Convergent, Correctional Facilities, Crack, crime, Detention Centers, Detroit, Drugs, Epidemic, freedom, Guns, healing, Hood, Killing, Mass Incarceration, Memoir, murder, Neglect, Oprah, Penguin Random House, Poverty, Prison, Racism, Reading, Redemption, Restoration, Shaka Senghor, Social Injustice, TedTalks, Writing My Wrongs, youth
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Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Anchor Price: $16.00 Purchase: Amazon Description “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We […]
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Tagged AnchorBooks, Anne Lamott, Best Sellers, Bird by Bird, Craft, Memoir, Writing
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Book Review: On Writing by Stephen King
Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Scribner; 10 Anv edition ISBN-10: 1439156816 Price: $17.00 Purchase: Amazon | BN Description Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools […]
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Tagged Best Sellers, Book Review, Books, Carrie, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, On Writing, Publishing, Salem's Lot, Stephen King, The Shining, Thriller
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What Side Are You On?
How many times have you heard… “I’m a Christian,” “I believe in Jesus,” “God speaks to me.” But when you look closely, you see no evidence of Him. They profess Christ. They pray. They attend church faithfully, or not. They post Scripture memes on Facebook, and have all their Christianese down pat. Yet, somehow, they carry […]
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Tagged Christianese, Deception, Discrimination, Division, Facebook, Fake Christians, Fake News, Fence, Jesus, Memes, Scripture, Wall
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Book Review: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Scribner ISBN-10: 074324754X ISBN-13: 978-0743247542 Price: $17.00 Purchase: Amazon | BN Description Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like […]
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Tagged America, Jeannette Walls, Memoir, Poverty, Resilience, Scribner, Survival, The Glass Castle
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Lust: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel by Victoria Christopher Murray
Series: Seven Deadly Sins Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Touchstone (February 7, 2017) ISBN-10: 1501134108 ISBN-13: 978-1501134104 Price: $15.00 Purchase: Amazon | BN Description From the NAACP Image award winner and national bestselling author Victoria Christopher Murray, a novel inspired by the seven deadly sins about a woman caught between […]
Christianity Today
I don’t know about you, but lately, I see so much confusion within Christianity. What happened to the simplicity of the gospel? Where did it go? I was one of those Christians who never read their Bible, but in the past couple of years, I have been reading it diligently. To my surprise, I am slowly […]
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Tagged Adultery, Child Molesters, Deception, drug dealer, False Gospel, Fornication, Gay Marriage, Homosexuality, Jesus, murder, pimp, Pornography, prostitute
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Another Gospel
They tell you to ignore and deny your sickness, depression, and pain. And when you pray, and nothing changes, it’s YOUR fault, because you don’t have enough faith. How many of you know that’s a bunch of hogwash? For whatever reason, some people have a hard time wrapping their minds around the fact that depression and anxiety is an illness and disability. […]
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Tagged Deception, Faith Healers, False Apostles, False Doctrine, False Prophets, healing, last days, Lies, miracles, Supernatural
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The Day I Deleted 3,000 Friends
From 2014 through 2015, I went from blogging and reviewing Christian genre, to crime fiction and urban literature. I enjoyed it, and in the process, learned a great deal about myself, and others. However, once I rededicated my life to Christ in the beginning of 2016, I had to reevaluate things. What I was doing, […]
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