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Brian Givens’s New Book Offers Parents Four Biblical Principles for Raising Children Amid ‘Chaos’
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Brian Givens, an educator with eighteen years of experience as a teacher, coach, and school principal, has published "Following Christ in the Chaos: 4 Biblical Principles for Parents," a book aimed at Christian parents navigating what the book describes as the overstimulation and competing demands of modern family life. It was published by Christian Faith Publishing in August 2026.
The publication structures its guidance using TILT—Train with Trust, Imitate our King, Lead with Love, and Teach with Grace—as its four core principles. According to the publisher’s description, the book is structured to address different parenting stages, from newborns to teenagers, and covers topics including reading Scripture in context, approaching prayer, disciplining children, and managing parental anxiety.
Each chapter reportedly pairs personal spiritual reflection with parenting application, closing with what the publisher calls a "training mode" section built around Bible verses, reflection questions, and a prayer response. An appendix adds further resources for spiritual formation, the publisher states.
Givens draws on his own family life as well as his career in education. He is married to Jana and has two sons, Owen and Mitchell. In the announcement, Givens said intimacy with God "can impact not only your children but also generations of Christ followers to come," and described the book as an attempt to push parents past surface-level techniques toward deeper discipleship.
"Following Christ in the Chaos" is available through major booksellers, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, and Google Play.
For Studio CarryOnHarry, books like this one speak to a steady market: parents looking for faith-based frameworks to counter what they see as the pressures of digital culture, rather than a single quick fix.
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Todd Gee Fox has written "A Winter Season’s Passage: Encouragement: Faith in Action," a book contending that handwritten correspondence possesses spiritual and emotional significance unavailable through digital means like texts and emails, according to the author and his publisher, Christian Faith Publishing.
The book draws directly on Fox’s own life. According to the author’s account, he lost his second wife, Debbie, and went through a period of destructive coping before rebuilding his life with the support of family and prayer. A writing class, he says, opened up a way to put those emotions into words. He met his current wife, Clotilde, in 2016, and the couple were married in a Catholic ceremony in 2019 by a priest Fox identifies as Father John B. Fox has said that his relationship with Father John prompted him to start writing the priest letters beginning in May 2020, a practice he continues.
In the book, Fox describes letter writing as a practice shaped by his large family: he has said his parents, raising eleven children, were frequent letter writers themselves, and that letters from them and from his ten siblings and four children have become keepsakes he now values. He frames the time spent composing a letter as part of what makes it meaningful, arguing that the deliberate, unrepeatable effort of writing is itself a gift to the recipient. The book includes some of his own letters to Father John and to family members as examples of what he calls honest, encouraging correspondence rooted in faith.
"The unveiling of one’s heart through letter writing is a win-win for both composer and receiver," Fox said. "My hope is that this book will inspire readers to take the time to share their true feelings with those they love, especially through the enduring medium of a handwritten letter."
"A Winter Season’s Passage" is published through Christian Faith Publishing and is available through major booksellers, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play and the Apple iTunes Store.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees this as part of a steady wave of faith-based memoirs built around a single personal practice; whether Fox’s focus on letter writing gives it staying power beyond its immediate audience is worth watching.
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The story continues directly from an earlier installment in Ayers’s series. Hoffmeyer, fresh off merging the Carson Corporation and ListCorp, finds that his success has drawn the attention of Vice President Perry Dodson, who begins monitoring him without his knowledge, according to the book’s synopsis. That surveillance leads Dodson toward what the synopsis describes as a surprising decision. At the same time, President Addison is pressing to unlock Site C, described as the most critical of a network of bunkers meant to protect the country from catastrophic collapse, while also trying to break The Order’s grip on the federal government.
A second storyline follows Cale Liston in a pursuit across Europe with State Department officer Jack Welston, a chase that the synopsis says produces an unexpected alliance. Both threads eventually circle back to Hoffmeyer and the people around him, with the central question, as the publisher frames it, being whether his choices lead to his ruin or his redemption, and whether he can forgive himself even if he believes he’s forgiven by God.
Ayers has described the book as an attempt to look at how ordinary people handle decisions that carry consequences well beyond their own lives. "I sought to explore how everyday individuals make decisions in exceptional situations where their choices impact both their personal lives and national outcomes," Ayers said in the announcement. "Evan’s journey is ultimately about wrestling with conscience, seeking redemption, and discovering whether faith can illuminate the darkest paths." The publisher’s materials note that Ayers draws on a background balancing small-town values with city life, which the author has carried into the series’ recurring interest in trust, hope, and faith under pressure.
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