Author: Cathy Roan
Cathy Roan is Associate Professor of Communications and Journalism at West Liberty University in West Virginia.
By Cathy Roan
Blood Done Sign My Name tells the true story of the murder of a young black man in 1970 in Oxford, North Carolina. The book's author, Timothy Tyson, was a ten-year-old white boy at the time and lived in the same town. His father was a local Methodist...
By Cathy Roan
Although many Christians are familiar with C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, Christians and non-Christians alike have enjoyed reading the Chronicles of Narnia books for nearly sixty years.Written shortly after the end of Worl...
By Cathy Roan
Author Marilynne Robinson's character, Rev. John Ames, is seventy-seven years old and aware that he has only a few months to live. The book is a letter addressed to his young son. It is part love letter, part autobiography, part historical document. ...
By Cathy Roan
This inspirational book came about as a fairly young man faced his own mortality. In September of 2006, Carnegie Mellon university professor Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was told by doctors that he had between three and six m...
By Cathy Roan
The book Night by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel has a long history and is considered a timeless classic. Wiesel describes the horrors of what happened to him and his family: being corralled into a ghetto, then herded onto train cars, and finally tak...
By Cathy Roan
In this work of fiction by William P. Young, a man is invited to spend a weekend with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. His notions of the Trinity and his preconceptions about religion and Christianity are challenged, and he begins the process of heal...