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Jennifer Mugrage

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Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Christian

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Jennifer Mugrage spent her youth gallivanting around Southeast Asia with her husband, learning languages and crossing cultures. Now she lives in the Western United States and home schools three active boys.

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	The Strange Land (The Scattering Trilogy Book 2) 4.41 avg rating — 297 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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No Friend to This House

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Meaty little book that exposes the ugly roots of human motivation. It draws on Rene Girard without mentioning him (except in the acknowledgements). But from a Christian perspective, there is actually a way out of the endless cycle of envy, striving, ...more
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This is a capable review of the scholarship around the question: Did Christianity actually arise from Platonism/Stoicism, Gnosticism, or the Hellenistic mystery religions? The view that it did, became popular in the late 1800s/early 1900s, especially ...more
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“Nothing is ever going to be perfect,” said Zillah. “Things are not meant to be perfect.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

tags: biblical-fiction, historical-fantasy, imperfect-life, life-lessons, perspective-shift, prehistoric-fiction, quote-to-keep, reflective-reads

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“A tribe needed many stabilizers, as many as they could get.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

tags: community-care, family-dynamics, historical-fantasy, leadership, resilience, responsibility, survival-saga, thought-provoking

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“The world was perverse, set up in such a way that bad decisions seemed obvious only in retrospect.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

tags: character-driven, hard-choices, historical-fantasy, human-nature, leadership-pressure, quote-of-the-day, thought-provoking

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“Nothing is ever going to be perfect,” said Zillah. “Things are not meant to be perfect.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

tags: biblical-fiction, historical-fantasy, imperfect-life, life-lessons, perspective-shift, prehistoric-fiction, quote-to-keep, reflective-reads

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“A tribe needed many stabilizers, as many as they could get.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

tags: community-care, family-dynamics, historical-fantasy, leadership, resilience, responsibility, survival-saga, thought-provoking

19 likes

“The world was perverse, set up in such a way that bad decisions seemed obvious only in retrospect.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

tags: character-driven, hard-choices, historical-fantasy, human-nature, leadership-pressure, quote-of-the-day, thought-provoking

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“Eating at a time like this was important, all the more so because it was the last thing anyone wanted”
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tags: griefand-survival, hard-days, historical-fantasy, quiet-strength, real-life-truth, take-care-of-yourself

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“A tribe needed many stabilizers, as many as they could get”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

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