Overall, Along a Storied Trail is a good read for those looking to learn about life in rural Kentucky in the 1930s. It is especially good for Christian readers looking for a clean romance with characters that model strong Christian morals.
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The Littlest Anchor
This is a children’s storybook about a ship that sails from Massachusetts to Liberia and runs into to some bad weather and difficult conditions. The story explains how the Captain carefully selects his crew and makes sure the ship is in perfect shape for the journey, including making sure the little anchor is on board with the appropriate rope. When the ship comes into perilous conditions, it turns out it is the little anchor that saves the ship because it caught on another huge anchor during the storm.
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Free Fall
In other words, the book suffers from being perfectly all right. The sliced-and-rearranged plot structure creates some thrills, but the writing style and ideas never exceed the formula. It’s a perfectly all right crime thriller with romance, serial killer tropes, and action. Sadly, nothing becomes passionate, baroque, or clever enough to take the story beyond perfectly all right.
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Freedom is Costly But Priceless: If Not Maintained It Will Not Remain
What has happened to the Christian heritage that made America so unique? Dave Meyer argues that a key problem is not so much politics, but the principles we’ve forgotten that made our culture and political process work.
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