Dr. Brad Strawn In The Physical Nature of Christian Life: Neuroscience, Psychology, & the Church, author Brad D. Strawn explores how developments in modern science have changed ideas of spirituality, and the implications for the church. The book argues against the long-held theological view that a soul provides the spirituality and mental capacities of a […]
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‘Cat’ lady
It’s not often that a cat writes a New York Times best-selling series, but for more than 20 years now, Sneaky Pie Brown has defied the odds, with the help of her human owner, Rita Mae Brown, of course. This month, the 20th anniversary book of Brown’s Mrs. Murphy mystery series, The Big Cat Nap, […]
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Frontier cookin’
Ree Drummond 1 p.m. Saturday Full Circle Bookstore 1900 Northwest Expressway 842-2900 The megapopular blogger and author will speak and sign books at Full Circle Bookstore to benefit the YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter. A Bartlesville native who attended college in Los Angeles, Drummond is a city girl accidentally gone country after she fell for a […]
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Conspiracy theory
When it comes to his insistence that man-made climate change is not real, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe has no apologies. When it comes to how and why man-made climate change is an issue, he takes no prisoners. Inhofe’s new book, The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, could be considered the […]
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Seeking subversion
Oklahoma City pastor Robin Meyers said he believes his sixth book, “The Underground Church: Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus,” will reach his broadest audience yet. While he previously tried to make the case for progressive Christianity, this new work takes a somewhat different approach. “This book is meant to continue that conversation, but make […]
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‘A little bit unreal’
As a fellow reporter, Said al-Ghazali, struggled to help him, Shadid wrote later in the Columbia Journalism Review that his thoughts flew to his wife and daughter, and of how useless words are when facing what could be one’s final moment. “In the anarchy of emotions and impulses that ensued, I could only come up […]
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Telling his side
Former Oklahoma Gov. David Hall, who served time in prison after his term in office, has penned a new memoir of his life. Although he writes in “Twisted Justice: A Memoir of Conspiracy and Personal Politics” that he’s forgiven his supposed tormentors — the former U.S. attorney who prosecuted him, several reporters for The Daily […]
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How to date your dragon
After a helpful quiz in “Dating the Undead: Loving the immortal man,” authored by a pair of Oklahoma City writers, you just might decide you’re better suited for zombies, vampires, dragons, shifters, angels or demons. Move over Cosmo. This new, tongue-in-cheek book adopts the picture-friendly medium usually reserved for glossy magazines to create the ultimate […]
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State of shock
David A. Farris may be Oklahoma’s Fox Mulder. Tracking down the Sooner State’s files of the unexplained, he’s compiled his findings into three books, from 1995’s “Mysterious Oklahoma” to 1999’s “Oklahoma Outlaw Tales.” On Sunday at Full Circle Bookstore, he’ll sign copies of his latest, “Oklahoma Outlaws, Spooky Stories and All Around Folklore,” which is […]
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State of shock
David A. Farris may be Oklahoma’s Fox Mulder. Tracking down the Sooner State’s files of the unexplained, he’s compiled his findings into three books, from 1995’s “Mysterious Oklahoma” to 1999’s “Oklahoma Outlaw Tales.” On Sunday at Full Circle Bookstore, he’ll sign copies of his latest, “Oklahoma Outlaws, Spooky Stories and All Around Folklore,” which is […]