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Leadership Virtues for Disruptive Times: A Conversation with Tom Ziglar
February 10, 2022

It seems like news media everywhere are talking about “The Great Resignation.” In the wake of COVID-19 lockdowns, workers realized that they didn’t want to go back to “normal.” Normal wasn’t working. And business leaders committed to that normal perspecti

God Gets Everything God Wants: A Conversation with Katie Hays
January 26, 2022

I picked up God Gets Everything God Wants because I didn’t think I agreed with the title’s assumption, but by the end of the book I found myself nodding along with Katie Hays and murmuring my agreement. I quoted the book in a church leader’s group and, if

The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water: A Conversation with Erin Bartels
January 26, 2022

With the opening lines of The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water, I knew it was a book I needed to read in one sitting. Its themes of how story shapes us, and how we [...]

How to Fight Racism: A Conversation with Jemar Tisby
January 03, 2022

The murder of George Floyd seemed like a watershed moment. More people than ever before were protesting, calling for justice, and ready to dismantle unjust systems. With that came an influx of a lot of people who maybe had good intentions but didn’t reall

The Lady’s Mine: A Conversation with Francine Rivers
January 01, 2022

Its been four years since Francine Rivers last released a novel and thirty years since her enduring classic, Redeeming Love. Now, in the space of two months, Rivers is releasing a novelThe Ladys Mi

Nature of Small Birds: A Conversation with Susie Finkbeiner
July 09, 2021

Susie Finkbeiner is a Life is Story favorite! A few months ago, we had the opportunity to sit down with her and talk about The Nature of Small Birds. Its a beautiful, relational story told [...]

The Sunlit Lands: A Conversation with Matt Mikalatos
June 08, 2021

In 2018, Matt Mikalatos released book one of his fantasy trilogy The Sunlit Lands. Imagine, if you will, that C.S. Lewis was writing to teenagers instead of elementary schoolchildren and youll have a

A Piece of the Moon: A Conversation with Chris Fabry
April 20, 2021

Chris Fabry had his start in small-town radio and years laternow with his own nationally syndicated show and dozens of bestselling novelshes returning that nostalgic past in A Piece of the Moon. Af

A Gentle Tyranny: A Conversation with Jess Corban
April 07, 2021

With the YA dystopian market so crowded, it can be difficult to find authors whose voice is truly their own. Everybody wants to be the next Hunger Games or Divergent that they fail to give [...]

Rendezvous with God: A Conversation with Bill Myers
March 29, 2021

If you grew up in the church, you probably know the name Bill Myers. Bills been a creator of Christian media for decades, fiction and non-fiction, for children and adults. You might know him from [..