6.9.2025 | Pastor Andrew Zakhari
Small Books, Big Impact
Most people wish they devoted more time to reading, but finding time to read is...
6.2.2025 | Laura Matthews
Why Read The Brothers Karamazov?
Stone Hill Arts Book Club: The Brothers Karamazov | June 30 @ 6:30 p.m. Discussion led...
5.21.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel
Pastor Tracy Reads | King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild & Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Let me encourage you to read both books together. King Leopold’s Ghost is a non-fiction...
5.12.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel
Pastor Tracy Reads | Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans
Over the past decades, I have heard politicians compare their opponents to other despots, authoritarian...
5.5.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel
Pastor Tracy Reads | Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Iain MacGregor
Here is the backstory: After World War II, Berlin was a divided city that lay...
4.25.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel
Pastor Tracy Reads | The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
For three hundred years, the Romanov Dynasty ruled the Russian Empire. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa traces the...
3.25.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel
Pastor Tracy Reads | The Narnia Code: C.S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens by Michael Ward
If you have never read C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia please stop reading this review...
3.17.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel
Pastor Tracy Reads | Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution By Simon Schama
One of the reasons to read history is to help us place our present situation...
3.3.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel
Pastor Tracy Reads | Parkland by Vincent Bugliosi
My father told me often that 1963 marked the serious decline of the United States...
2.24.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel
Pastor Tracy Reads | The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage or Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides
Some may not want to read a book that chronicles more examples of imperial overreach,...
2.12.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel
Pastor Tracy Reads | The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
We are familiar with how World War II began. Germany invaded Poland in 1939. The...
2.3.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel
Pastor Tracy Reads | Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought The Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller
My grandfathers served in the military during World War II. So, I grew up listening...