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New Book from Dr. Chris Matinides Tells of a Shelter Dog Named Job and a Crisis of Faith
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Dr. Chris Matinides has written "Job’s Gift of Love: How One Broken Dog Opened My Eyes to God’s Grace," a memoir built around a chance encounter at an animal shelter. The book is published through Christian Faith Publishing and is available now at bookstores and through major online retailers including Amazon, Apple iTunes, Google Play, and Barnes and Noble.
According to the announcement, Matinides, referred to in the book as Dr. Randy, is a vision specialist who had reached a point of spiritual doubt when a Saturday walk with his wife, Robin, brought them to a scarred pit bull at a shelter. The dog, which the couple went on to adopt and name Job, became the basis for a narrative the author says reshaped his own understanding of grace.
The book centers on themes of redemption, prejudice, and what the announcement describes as the transformative power of compassion, using Job’s physical scars and the assumptions people made about him as a parallel to the labels and judgments people carry. Matinides, who the announcement says has experience leading others to Christian faith, also dedicates the work to his mother, Jean, whom he describes as a lifelong influence on his spiritual life.
In the announcement, Matinides expressed his hope that readers would see their own healing journeys mirrored in Job’s story. "When we look at life through eyes filled with love rather than fear, we see God’s grace working in ways we never imagined possible."
The book joins a steady stream of faith-based titles from Christian Faith Publishing, whose catalog regularly features personal narratives connecting everyday experience to religious conviction, a lane that pet-redemption stories have become something of a staple within in recent years.
For Studio CarryOnHarry, stories pairing rescue animals with personal faith journeys are a well-worn genre in Christian publishing, and the real interest here is in how specifically Matinides’s medical background and his mother’s influence shape his telling of it.
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Ann Coon has released an updated edition of "A Spiritual Code of Ethics (Revisited and Updated): Spirit’s Call to Move Forward, Upward, and Onward," a collection of short spiritual reflections first published in 2009, according to the publisher’s announcement.
Through meditations incorporating the Beatitudes, Psalm 100, and the Fruits of the Spirit, the work explores themes of forgiveness, grace, and spiritual transformation. The announcement frames the update as a return to that earlier material for a present-day readership, though it does not detail what, specifically, has changed from the original text.
Drawing from her experience as a nurse and mother, Coon brings perspective shaped by her Pennsylvania coal country origins and current California home. This is not her first book: ten years after the original "Spiritual Code of Ethics," she wrote "From Beyond the Grave," a work honoring family elders she credits with shaping her faith.
"This book was not written so much as received," Coon said in the announcement. "I offer these reflections as words spoken from the heart of Spirit to the heart of the reader, hoping that those who feel called to deeper faith will find in these pages the permission and encouragement they need to begin again."
The book is published through Christian Faith Publishing and is available at bookstores and through major online retailers including Amazon, Google Play, Apple’s iTunes Store, and Barnes and Noble.
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Coon writes from a background as a nurse, mother, and self-described spiritual seeker, from humble beginnings in Pennsylvania coal country, now residing in California. The announcement describes her as writing from personal experience with loss and healing rather than from a position of outside authority. This is not her first book: ten years after her original 2009 work, she wrote "From Beyond the Grave," a book honoring elder family members whose wisdom she says shaped her own path.
"This book was not written so much as received," Coon said in the announcement, adding that she offers the reflections as words "spoken from the heart of Spirit to the heart of the reader," intended for those seeking what she calls permission to begin again in their faith.
The book is available through Christian Faith Publishing’s website as well as major retailers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, and the Apple iTunes Store.
Studio CarryOnHarry notes that revisiting and updating a devotional work seventeen years after its original release is itself part of the story here: these are reflections the author apparently felt still needed saying, in largely the same form, for a new generation of readers.
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