Top LDB Blog Posts of 2024

And Updates on Our Authors

Friends,

First, our hearts are with our authors, friends, and everyone in the Los Angeles area. We are hoping for safety and calm in such an unsettling time.

Below are a handful of updates from our Lake Drive authors. We hope you might find something interesting and life-giving here:

• See the new The Intention Church, an online gathering with Trey Ferguson as pastor, offering Sunday gatherings, weekly prayer, and bi-weekly Bible study.

• Christa Brown’s Baptistland was recommended by the Texas Observer in a list of books from “A Strong Year in Texas Letters.”

• Caroline Beidler started a live book club on Tuesdays with the Center of Addiction and Faith during the month of January. You can still Register here.

• Satirist Becky Garrison is dishing up weekly posts about spiritual narcissism that will help you laugh and move beyond toxic spirituality in a new Substack newsletter here.

• Counselor and minister Kate Meyer has been rocking regular posts to encourage you on her YouTube channel “KatesKorner.”

• This past fall poet Marla Taviano self-published what makes you FART?: find your passion and figure out your life by the time you finish reading this book.

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And without further ado, here are the . . .

Most Read Lake Drive Books Blog Posts from 2024

1. Leaving Evangelicalism Makes You a Better Christian, David Morris

2. Cradled in the Arms of Compassion Wins 2024 “Best Book” Award in Religion

3. This Easter, Remember It’s the Life of Jesus that Is the Good News, Trey Ferguson

4. What If I Don’t Believe in God?, Julia Rocchi

5. Faith Deconstruction at a Christian Writer’s Conference, David Morris

6. A More Spiritual Life—Without Christian Labels, Liz Mall

7. Resistance against Clergy Sexual Abuse Is Never Wasted, Christa Brown

8. Podcasts, Where Questioning Faith Is Alive and Well

9. The Bible Ain’t No Car Manual, Trey Ferguson

10. What Helped Me Recover from Childhood Trauma, Frank Rogers, Jr.

Grateful for you,

David Morris, Publisher

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