The phrase “bus ride from hell” no doubt conjures up bad memories of trips to and from school on the big yellow bus, or perhaps visions of a cross-country journey you would rather forget. But in his 1946 book The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis really means a bus ride from Hell. The book begins with the narrator boarding a bus in the mean streets of the netherworld and taking a trip that will determine…

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Since infancy, Hannah Lawson has suffered serious threats to her health: numerous surgeries on her hips as a little baby, debilitating asthma, a seizure disorder, and now, as a nineteen-year old college freshman, deep emotional disturbances. Yet, despite these disadvantages, Hannah has soldiered on, and as the movie October Baby opens she takes the stage as the lead in her college play. Moments…

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Do you dread your family’s Thanksgiving get-together because of a certain relative who drives you nuts? Do you have a co-worker whose behavior makes no sense to you? Do you always butt heads with one of your kids? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, read The Temperament God Gave You, by Art and Laraine Bennett. It will help you understand why people behave the way they do, making…

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