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Articles by Jeremiah Rood
Words of Nourishment from Tomáš Halík, Author of The Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change
“If the mystery of the Resurrection continues in history, then we should be prepared to seek Christ not among the dead, in the empty tomb of the past, but to discover today’s Galilee (“the Galilee of the Gentiles“), where we will find him surprisingly transfigured. He will once again walk through the closed doors of our fear, he will show himself by his wounds.
Review of A History of the Murray Canal
Dan Buchanan Sean Scally (Photographer) FriesenPress (136pp) 978-1-03-919525-7 Clarion Rating: 5 out of 5 Infusing engineering history with a sense of intrigue, A History of the Murray Canal lays bare the intricacies of the canal’s planning and construction. Dan Buchanan’s engaging history text A History of the Murray Canal is a behind-the-scenes look at the lobbying efforts that supporters used to make the structure a reality.
Review of It's OK to Feel Like This...!
Suppressed Thoughts of an Introvert Monique Worgess BalboaPressUK (Aug 29, 2023) Softcover $20.99 (122pp) 978-1-982287-30-6 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 It’s OK to Feel Like This…! is a wrenching memoir about moving past traumatic experiences toward authenticity and freedom. Monique Worgess’s affirming memoir It’s OK to Feel Like This…! celebrates her decision to be true to herself through difficult circumstances.
Review of Higher Power
My Life of Service Michael D. Schmitz iUniverse (Jul 19, 2022) $10.99 (70pp) 978-1-66324-192-4 Clarion Rating: 2 out of 5 Collecting memories from ministerial work alongside ranging thoughts on a variety of topics, Higher Power is a hope-filled priest’s memoir. Catholic priest Michael D. Schmitz’s memoir Higher Power gathers reminiscences from a lifetime of Christian ministry. Schmitz grew up in Minnesota in the 1960s. His childhood home was troubled by alcohol use.
Review of The Afternoon of Christianity
The Courage to Change Tomáš Halík Gerald Turner (Translator) University of Notre Dame Press (Mar 1, 2024) Hardcover $25.00 (264pp) 978-0-268-20747-2 Analytical and prescient, Tomáš Halík’s stunning theology book The Afternoon of Christianity makes projections about the future of Christian faith in light of the sweeping demographic and cultural changes it faces.
Review of Trust the Bluer Skies
Meditations on Fatherhood paulo da costa University of Regina Press (Mar 2, 2024) Softcover $24.95 (256pp) 978-0-88977-995-2 paulo da costa’s heartbreaking memoir Trust the Bluer Skies is a bittersweet ode to memories of lost times and places. The book explores da costa’s relationship with his four-year-old son, Koah, during a months-long, pivotal trip from Canada to da costa’s birthplace in rural Portugal, undertaken in an effort to expose Koah to his heritage and extended family life.
Review of Shot in the Mouth and Still Preaching
Tom Williams AuthorHouse (Mar 8, 2023) Softcover $15.99 (136pp) 979-882300301-8 Clarion Rating: 3 out of 5 Shot in the Mouth and Still Preaching is a familiar soldier’s memoir about going to war and being changed by the experience. Tom Williams’s engaging memoir Shot in the Mouth and Still Preaching combines the danger of combat with a heartfelt calling to preach God’s word. Williams grew up in Ohio with a strict father.
Review of My Life as a Prayer
A Multifaith Memoir Elizabeth Cunningham Monkfish Book Publishing (Nov 7, 2023) Softcover $18.95 (260pp) 978-1-958972-10-6 Going into the depths of her writer’s soul, Elizabeth Cunningham’s enchanting memoir My Life as a Prayer is a worshipful text. With a beginning that defines Cunningham’s lifelong search for belonging, the book’s memories are laid out in a scrapbook format.
Review of Why We Make Bad Choices
The God's Labyrinth of Good and Evil Encountering the Self Maria Liviero Amazon KDP (Mar 1, 2023) (242pp) 978-1-399-92445-0 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 Why We Make Bad Choices is an innovative parable regarding evil in the world; it draws on psychology and the Bible. In Maria Liviero’s innovative allegorical text Why We Make Bad Choices, classical Jungian psychology is used to argue that the Genesis account resides within the collective unconscious of humanity.
Review of Bread
A Modern Parable David Templeton David Templeton Stories (Apr 6, 2023) $14.99 (140pp) 979-898772841-3 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 Bread is a thoughtful Christian parable set in a divided world in which one life can make a difference. David Templeton’s engrossing Christian novel Bread is a spiritual parable about the transformational power of relationships.
‘Dune,’ from Page to Screen
The story of the iconic SF novel gets told through two nonfiction accounts. ★Britt, Ryan. The Spice Must Flow: The Story of Dune, from Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi Movies. Plume. Sept. 2023. 288p. ISBN 9780593472996. pap. $18.
Review of An Intriguing Heritage
The Story of How the Dowdys and Their Kindred Stood Up to Life Harry Kendall Dowdy Jr. The Regency Publishers (352pp) 978-1-961096-75-2 Clarion Rating: 3 out of 5 An Intriguing Heritage is the thorough genealogical record of one Black American family. Harry Kendall Dowdy Jr.‘s detailed family biography An Intriguing Heritage is presented as a microcosm of Black American experiences since the country’s founding.
Review of The Crooked Ladder
Heirs of Regula 2 C. R. Bracher Amazon KDP (346pp) 979-898539592-1 Clarion Rating: 5 out of 5 In the redemptive fantasy novel The Crooked Ladder, a cursed prince fights to rise above his circumstances. In C. R. Bracher’s introspective fantasy novel The Crooked Ladder, a broken prince seeks to claim his birthright. This second series title opens in dramatic form, with sullen Prince Eldred running from warriors who wish him harm.
Review of Darkness to Light
A Utopia/Dystopia Novel David H. Maring Amazon KDP` (235pp) 979-835090853-4 Clarion Rating: 3 out of 5 Darkness to Light is a future-set science fiction novel wherein society has crumbled, but God’s faithful remain. In David H. Maring’s edgy science fiction novel Darkness to Light, a contemporary man enters an exciting postapocalyptic world in which women are in charge and he’s just extra baggage. On a trip to gather supplies, Beth discovers John, an older man in cryostasis.
Review of Path to Grace
Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement Ethel Morgan Smith University Press of Mississippi (Aug 15, 2023) Hardcover $25.00 (256pp) 978-1-4968-4641-9 Ethel Morgan Smith’s memoir Path to Grace covers the civil rights movement from the days following Reconstruction to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It also acknowledges that the quest for civil rights remains a living challenge.
Review of Investing in Retail Properties
A Guide to Structuring Partnerships for Sharing Capital Appreciation and Cash Flow: Third Edition Gary D. Rappaport Forbes Books (Sep 19, 2023) (333pp) 979-888750307-3 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 Leading by example, Investing in Retail Properties shares thorough, tested advice for prospective investors. Updated to reflect post-pandemic changes like the work-from-home economy, this third edition of Gary D.
Review of Miracle Warrior
Surviving a Shattered Life Gigi Cramer Gatekeeper Press (Feb 25, 2022) Hardcover $24.95 (148pp) 978-1-66292-235-0 Clarion Rating: 3 out of 5 Moving from privilege to perseverance, Miracle Warrior is an inspiring memoir about growing past challenges to find deeper meaning. Gigi Cramer’s testimonial memoir Miracle Warrior is about rising above challenges and moving forward with hope.
Review of Mosaic Caverns
Christopher Zyck CJZ Mediaisland (258pp) 979-898689284-9 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 Scientists explore the unknown in the intriguing thriller Mosaic Caverns, in which the truth of human history is buried deep in the South American jungle. Christopher Zyck’s mystical adventure novel Mosaic Caverns follows a pair of scientists on a jungle expedition where they come face to face with the origins of the human race.
Let's celebrate pride together and embrace our true colors
Reviewer Jeremiah Rood Interviews Roberto Jimenez, Author of My Life in Colors: Embracing the Rainbow To live an authentic, true-to-yourself life requires one character trait more than any other: courage. Without courage, standing up for yourself is intimidating. Without courage, it’s nearly impossible to demand that people accept you for who you are.
Review of Winning at Public Speaking
Proven Principles from Great Trial Lawyers That Will Transform Your Next Presentation or Speech Shane Read Westway Publishing Hardcover $32.95 (272pp) 979-898511524-6 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 The career guide Winning at Public Speaking is filled with practical advice for delivering confident and persuasive arguments. Directed at lawyers, Shane Read’s career guide Winning at Public Speaking suggests ways of connecting to clients and courtrooms.
Review of More than Marriage
Forming Families after Marriage Equality John G. Culhane University of California Press (May 2, 2023) Softcover $29.95 (232pp) 978-0-520-39166-6 John G. Culhane’s powerful book More than Marriage explores what it means to be a family in both human and legal terms.
Review of Secrets of the Moon
Myth and Mysticism, History and Science Andrew Osiow Amazon KDP (250pp) 979-898718424-0 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 Secrets of the Moon is an enthusiastic science book that is filled with interesting information about the moon and how it impacts life on Earth. Andrew Osiow’s science book Secrets of the Moon boasts a wealth of knowledge about Earth’s heavenly neighbor and human efforts to understand it.
Review of Born Into Crisis
Kenneth Nixon Jr. Burning Soul Press (May 2, 2023) Softcover $19.99 (232pp) 978-1-950476-55-8 Clarion Rating: 3 out of 5 Born into Crisis is a memoir whose story about the impact of mental health issues on a family folds into suggestions for systemic reform. Kenneth Nixon Jr.’s memoir Born into Crisis turns a childhood of trauma into a call for community support to address unmet mental health concerns. Nixon grew up in Arlington, Virginia in the 1990s and had a somewhat chaotic childhood.
Review of The Dynamics of Change in the Human Race
The Spirit’s Work John Pugh Anthropoeneuma Publications (359pp) 978-1-959173-75-5 Clarion Rating: 3 out of 5 Attuned psychologists can help their clients connect to God’s plans in their lives, according to this expansive guide. Written for pastoral counselors and challenging traditional psychotherapy models, John Pugh’s The Dynamics of Change in the Human Race introduces an expansive understanding of the connections between religion and psychology.
Review of Stress Wisely
How to Be Well in an Unwell World Robyne Hanley-Dafoe Page Two (327pp) 978-1-77458-262-6 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 Stress Wisely is a thoughtful self-help book that calls self-examination critical to conquering stress. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe’s self-help book Stress Wisely suggests taking a holistic approach to one’s daily challenges. The book first rethinks what stress means, sifting through theoretical work to assert that most people’s understandings of what goes into stress are far too limited.
Review of The Authority Advantage
Building Thought Leadership Focused on Impact Not Ego Adam Witty Rusty Shelton Forbes Books (273pp) 978-1-955884-86-0 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 Written for company leaders, the coherent business book The Authority Advantage names strategies for effective and educational social media and web content development. Adam Witty and Rusty Shelton’s The Authority Advantage suggests means of standing out in media-saturated environments, including leveraging leaders’ existing expertise to build brands.
Reviewer Jeremiah Rood Interviews Oren Kessler, Author of Palestine 1936
Written history has a way of providing both comfort and confusion to readers. Just because you’ve studied a place, an event, time’s eternal march through human affairs, doesn’t necessarily mean you understand the situation better. Case in point: the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis in the Middle East. Ask a roomful of fifty Middle East historians to suggest a potential solution to the world’s #1 conundrum and you’ll get a hundred different answers.
Review of Lonely Are the Brave
Larry Zuckerman Cennan Books (305pp) 978-1-947976-39-9 Clarion Rating: 5 out of 5 Lonely Are the Brave is a powerful historical novel in which two veterans are pitted against each other in postwar America. In Larry Zuckerman’s affecting historical novel Lonely Are the Brave, soldiers struggle after serving overseas in World War I. Rollie is an army veteran whose homecoming is complicated by the fact that his wife has died, leaving him to care for their infant.
Review of The Art of Brevity
Crafting the Very Short Story Grant Faulkner University of New Mexico Press (Feb 15, 2023) Softcover $19.95 (192pp) 978-0-8263-6473-9 Grant Faulkner’s The Art of Brevity is a masterful flash fiction guidebook that shows how powerful a few words can be. Guiding those who write pieces ranging from 100 words to two pages of text, this book celebrates short, accessible prose.
Review of All My Knotted-Up Life
Beth Moore Tyndale Momentum (Feb 21, 2023) Hardcover $27.99 (304pp) 978-1-4964-7267-0 Beth Moore’s moving memoir All My Knotted-Up Life concerns the troubles and triumphs of Christian ministry. This confessional, powerful, and testimonial story of Moore’s life begins in her childhood, treating her hardscrabble roots in rural Arkansas with nostalgia and charm, as when she recalls clutching the sides of a mattress to make a dramatic entrance.
Review of He Called Me Sister
A True Story of Finding Humanity on Death Row Suzanne Craig Robertson Helen Prejean (Contributor) Morehouse Publishing (Feb 21, 2023) Hardcover $29.95 (240pp) 978-1-64065-595-9 In her captivating memoir, Suzanne Craig Robertson brings out the nuances of a death row inmate’s story that news reports and court judgments ignored. Robertson’s husband, Alan, was a participant in a church ministry that visited those on Tennessee’s death row. She received a phone call from an inmate, Cecil C.
Review of Bones Under the Ice
A Jhonni Laurent Mystery Mary Ann Miller Oceanview Publishing (Mar 21, 2023) Hardcover $27.95 (336pp) 978-1-60809-537-7 In Mary Ann Miller’s chilling mystery novel Bones Under the Ice, cold temperatures are no barrier to murder. In the days following a blizzard, the body of a pregnant teenager is uncovered in a snowdrift outside of rural Fields Crossing, Indiana.
Review of Carnival Quest
The Candy Shop War: Book 3 Brandon Mull Shadow Mountain (Mar 14, 2023) Hardcover $19.99 (400pp) 978-1-63993-088-3 In Brandon Mull’s exciting fantasy novel Carnival Quest, a carnival of terrors has the power to warp a person’s dreams. During the summer before Nate enters the sixth grade at a new school, the Dreams and Screams Carnival comes to town. Soon, its sinister side is revealed: it begins to grow in size, and people begin to disappear.
Review of My Life in Colors
My Life in Colors: "My Life in Colors" is an exuberant LGBTQ+ memoir that celebrates embracing one's individuality. Mental health professional Roberto Jimenez's memoir "My Life in Colors" covers his challenges with coming out, but it also finds joy in that...
Review of Broken Promises
How Insurers Put Profits Over Promises David Skipton Book Vine Press (140pp) 978-1-955885-93-5 Clarion Rating: 3 out of 5 Treating insurance claims as a legal negotiation and naming strategies to win, Broken Promise is an insider’s guide to navigating insurance industry behaviors. Concerned with the contemporary responses of the insurance industry to major losses, David Skipton’s book Broken Promises is eye-opening.
Review of Stormfront
Book One of the Stormsong Trilogy Stephen Reger Outskirts Press (452pp) 978-1-977257-71-0 Clarion Rating: 3 out of 5 Stormfront is an alternative history novel in which the tumultuous Thirty Years’ War is influenced by witches and powerful magic. In Stephen A. Reger’s exciting alternative history novel Stormfront, Catholics and Protestants clash in a magic-infused version of seventeenth-century Germany. During the late 1600s, the papal powers are supported, in secret, by the Stormsong family.
Review of Pushed
Miners, a Merchant, and (Maybe) a Massacre Ana Maria Spagna Torrey House Press (Feb 7, 2023) Softcover $18.95 (232pp) 978-1-948814-69-0 Ana Maria Spagna’s fascinating true crime book Pushed investigates the possible mass murder of a group of Chinese immigrants by a mob of Indigenous people. While a mob may have pushed the immigrants to their deaths, the book explores three explanations in total for the 1875 event, which took place on a bluff high above the Columbia River.
Review of Palestine 1936
The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict Oren Kessler Rowman & Littlefield (Feb 15, 2023) Hardcover $26.95 (320pp) 978-1-5381-4881-5 Oren Kessler’s brave new history book Palestine 1936 reveals the deep roots of today’s Israel-Palestine conflict.
Review of Following Jesus in a Warming World
A Christian Call to Climate Action Kyle Meyaard-Schaap InterVarsity Press (Feb 21, 2023) Softcover $18.00 (192pp) 978-1-5140-0445-6 Kyle Meyaard-Schaap’s inspiring religious book Following Jesus in a Warming World is a spirited call to evangelicals to show some love for the planet. Meyaard-Schaap came of age in the post-Reagan years. His book begins with a personal anecdote: fifteen years ago, Meyaard-Schaap’s brother came home and announced that he’d become a vegetarian.
Review of Good Intentions, Bad Consequences
Voters' Information Problems Phillip Nelson PageTurner Press and Media Softcover $10.99 (238pp) 978-1-64908-151-3 Clarion Rating: 2 out of 5 Economic arguments are used against the American left wing in the political science book Good Intentions, Bad Consequences. Phillip Nelson’s political science book Good Intentions, Bad Consequences defends traditional conservative ideas and argues against liberal dreams.
Review of The Courage to Stay
How to Heal from an Affair and Save Your Marriage Kathy Nickerson Dr. Kathy & Co Press (275pp) 979-898694048-9 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 The Courage to Stay is an affirming self-help book that walks couples through achieving a new sense of normalcy after the discovery of an affair. Drawing upon twenty-plus years of clinical experience with struggling partners, Kathy Nickerson’s empathetic self-help book The Courage to Stay is a useful guide for couples looking to remain together after an affair.
Reviewer Jeremiah Rood Interviews Sophie Strand, Author of The Flowering Wand
Manhood is a bland, one-trick pony. In pop culture, sports, business, and most everywhere else, men are celebrated for being aggressive and ambitious, stoic and decisive—but how senseless is that? We’re experiencing major changes and challenges in the world and it’s not because we don’t have enough Clint Eastwood-types in society. What the times are calling for, what our planet’s survival is dependent on, are more Atticus Finches—as husbands, business leaders, politicians, and friends to all.
Review of The Delivery Man
The Art to Turning Ideas into Products in Silicon Valley Sebastien Taveau Tavo Reno Publishing (Nov 8, 2022) Hardcover $29.95 (183pp) 979-898704741-5 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 The Delivery Man features a wealth of strategies and advice for those working within the field of technology. Drawing on personal experiences, Sebastien Taveau’s informative business book The Delivery Man suggests methods for delivering information technology products to customers in difficult and challenging situations.
Review of 8 Steps to Energize Your Faith
Joe Paprocki Loyola Press (173pp) 978-0-8294-5449-9 Clarion Rating: 3 out of 5 8 Steps to Energize Your Faith is a lighthearted spiritual self-help book that mixes pop cultural and biblical references into its recommendations for engaging in fulfilling Christian practices. Joe Paprocki’s uplifting self-help book 8 Steps to Energize Your Faith shares practical tips for connecting to God in one’s everyday life.
Review of Cradle of Saints
The Chronicles of Iona Paula de Fougerolles Careswell Press (419pp) 978-0-692-04386-8 Clarion Rating: 5 out of 5 Cradle of Saints is an epic historical novel in which politics and religion lead to clashes and power struggles in the British Isles. Set in medieval Britain, Paula de Fougerolles’s thrilling historical novel Cradle of Saints is full of passion, violence, warring Scottish lords, and the Black Death.
Review of Moscow Gold
A Novel of Twentieth-Century Spain Douglas L. Field iUniverse (Apr 18, 2022) Softcover $28.99 (690pp) 978-1-66320-336-6 Clarion Rating: 3 out of 5 Moscow Gold is a complex historical thriller in which an American journalist faces a cabal of spies. Set during the Spanish Civil War, Douglas Field’s epic historical thriller Moscow Gold follows a search for missing treasure. In Spain, thieves steal a briefcase that contains hundreds of gold coins.
Reviewer Jeremiah Rood Interviews Damon Garcia, Author of The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus
What do you know about God? Damon Garcia has a hunch that the God of your imagination may need to be super sized a few quadrillion times and then doubled for good measure. As he sees it, everything you’ve ever been taught or led to believe about God may be biased because those teachings—“the neat little box of [God] ideas”— all served to support the agenda of whatever church or spiritual community you heard it from.
Review of Bombay Monsoon
James W. Ziskin Oceanview Publishing (Dec 6, 2022) Hardcover $27.95 (320pp) 978-1-60809-506-3 Reminiscent of the 1920s Gatsby era, with undercover alcohol and the hint of danger, James Ziskin’s Bombay Monsoon is a captivating thriller set during a pivotal time in Indian history. Danny Jacobs is a reporter fresh on the beat covering sprawling Bombay and its surrounding communities.
Review of The Flowering Wand
Rewilding the Sacred Masculine Sophie Strand Inner Traditions (Nov 22, 2022) Softcover $18.99 (208pp) 978-1-64411-596-1 Sophie Strand’s insightful spirituality book The Flowering Wand gives men an alternative to toxic masculinity by mining the myths and legends of the past. Strand notes that the treatment of masculinity in contemporary society is flawed. The patriarchy, she writes, devastated the environment and left men with a very limited way to live in the world.
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