A fantastic book that is perhaps the best exposé ever written on the world’s largest and most popular religion (approximately 2.5 billion adherents) from an ‘insider’ who participated in Christianity for many years. You can search far and wide and you will not find a better book on what Christianity is, why it is a successful failure, and why it’s being a successful failure should be of urgent interest to you and those you care about.

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Apparently, being an “insider” for many years didn’t teach him humility.

When Jillian Farmer meets Carly Foreman in the pediatrician’s office, she has no idea how her life is about to be forever changed. After tragedy strikes, Jillian feels led to help a motherless child, but not everyone appreciates her help, and Jillian is soon put in the middle of a family feud. Jillian only wants what’s best for Ben, the child she quickly grows to love as her own, but will she make an objective decision, or will her own feelings get in the way of doing what is right?

Want to borrow my whiteboard? (h/t Nuclear_i9_Meltdown)

Late one Saturday night Aaron Tyler has a choice to make, the noise coming from his front door is unusual – nobody has knocked at Sotherby House for nearly 20 years.

A recluse for almost half his life, the idea of someone at his door both terrifies and excites him.
Denying his natural instinct he decides to open it.
What he finds is a barely conscious, beaten and bloodied girl.

From that moment on his world is about to become complicated in ways he could not have imagined.
Many questions need answering.

How did 15yr old Sophie Thomas end up on the doorstep of Sotherby House? More importantly – Why?

And what does she want from Aaron Tyler?

I love the English language too much to like this at all. (h/t Doug)