LeAnne Hardy

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Almost Christian

December 2, 2011

Tags: Almost Christian, Kenda Creasy Dean, Soul Searching, Christian Smith, Melinda Linquist Denton, National Study of Youth and Religion, adolescence, teenagers, teens, faith, book reviews, LeAnne Hardy


Moralist Therapeutic Deism—the religion of this age. There is a God, and he wants us to be nice and to feel good about ourselves. True, but what a watered down version of faith! It’s a far cry from “Be holy as I am holy!” This is not the religion of the apostles or martyrs, nor of medieval saints or the reformers. Moralistic Therapeutic Deism would never have driven the Pilgrims to the rocky shores of New England, or sent anyone to the Gulag Archipelago for (more…)

Selected Works

Glastonbury Grail Series
Book 1. A tale of the Holy Grail and the tumultuous England of King Henry VIII
Book 2. Colin returns to Wales with the ancient olivewood cup. But why does it show none of the supernatural power it displayed in Glastonbury?
Juvenile Fiction
Ben will be dead meat if the guys find out what he's doing at the ice rink in the early mornings.
It’s never fun to be different, and Brazilian–born Cristina Larson feels very different.
Despite the war, Keri’s parents wouldn’t let anything really bad happen to her... would they?
Who will take care of Lindiwe when her sick mother passes?
Picture Book
God is like many things in a small African boy’s world—the wind, a rock, even his mother.

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