A clear-eyed, very readable manual for women living Christian lives in the modern world.
A spiritual guide for entrepreneurial women of faith.
Debut author Bollinger, a longtime Chicago health care executive with a husband and two children, elaborates on her personal blueprint for Christian women in the modern workplace. She knows that she’s pushing against “good old-fashioned guilt that perhaps Christian women are supposed to be at home tending to family.” But she counters this with a simple contention that it’s “okay for a woman to command a boardroom, be the primary breadwinner for a family, and love the Lord, all while honoring a husband who takes a non-traditional role in the home.” In a series of short, concentrated sections, punctuated throughout with a very approachable tone and understated humor, she gives advice on how to strike the tricky balance between being a loving, supportive wife and mother in the home and an inspiring workplace leader. She assures her audience of Christian women that God has plans that involve them, whether they seek God out or never give him a second thought, and she also reassures them that God made each of them the way they are, faults and all. In these and many other ways, including its use of empowering buzz terms, such as “Warrior Purposes” or “Kingdom Purposes” (“You are a warrior headed into battle, with an important Kingdom purpose that will allow you to uniquely impact the Kingdom of God”), Bollinger’s book hews fairly close to the standard, 21st-century prosperity-gospel narrative; for example, she warns her readers that “God isn’t a lucky eight ball or a magic wand” while also characterizing God as an unpredictable, supernatural source of inspiration and insight. However, she leavens her version of this narrative with warmly told anecdotes and refreshingly blunt candor about how “squeaky” political issues “all the way to the right or to the left” can sometimes distract the faithful from their higher purposes.
A clear-eyed, very readable manual for women living Christian lives in the modern world.Pub Date: April 15, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4602-8492-6
Page Count: 186
Publisher: FriesenPress
Review Posted Online: Aug. 23, 2016
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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