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By: St. George

St. George — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:07:47 +0000

What is the Biblical response to someone who breaks the promise of chastity? I hope the young teenage girls find Deut. 22:21 ” they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.” Nothing like a good murder mystery.

Having said all that I won’t be reading the book, but I may be giving it out as a gift. I liked Terra a lot when we met at B-Day Party; she is one of your friends who you can take anywhere – not like me. If she is half the writer that she is as a person, then this is probably a great read filled with humor and heartbreaks.

Frankly I found the teen years to be very difficult and uncomfortable and I must admit that where I grew up there weren’t very many chastity rings gumming up the works. It is good to have somebody giving the insider’s view to the real issues that are facing young girls/ladies these days.

Prayers for record sales and an appearance on Oprah.
Peace,
George

By: adamjcopeland

adamjcopeland — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:53:41 +0000

DennisS, it just came out this week so give it some time to make every list. It’s on IndieBound and Amazon, though. Re reading time, I’ve heard just the opposite from pastors as well — that they read so much more out of seminary (for fun, at least), than they did in seminary, so I guess it’s a context thing. I think it’s about choices: Americans watch 3.5 hours of TV per day on average, and 50% of Americans read average of 1 novel per year. Hmmm.

By: DennisS

DennisS — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:17:14 +0000

I checked a couple of book sites and they don’t have the book listed. Then I found one which said I could pre-order, and that the publish date is today.

BTW – I’m a bit jealous. I remember the days when I could get a lot of reading done. I’m approaching 4 years as a pastor, and I do about a tenth of the reading I did while in seminary.

It might be worth negotiating – get a day off, AND a reading day. Have only three or four days in the office – assaulted by emails, correspondence, magazines, catalogues, phone calls, people dropping in, planning events, writing newsletter and newspaper articles, etc, etc…

By: adamjcopeland

adamjcopeland — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:47:35 +0000

Definitely check it out, Taylor. It’s a good look at the culture behind the pledges, as well as the internal anguish of the main character as she determines for herself what’s right. So totally perfect (and fun to read too .

By: taylor

taylor — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:33:25 +0000

thanks for the recommendation, adam. i’ve been debating about the topic of my m.div thesis and have toyed with the idea of teen christian novels basically because i hate them. but this looks like i wouldn’t throw it across my room in anger. yay! thank you for sharing and i look forward to reading it.