Review: In this Moment - Karen Kingsbury

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In This Moment (The Baxter Family, #2)

Review: In this Moment - Book #2 The Baxter Family - Karen Kingsbury - November 2017
After having a long hiatus of not reading Christian fiction, I have felt the call to go back and read it and get back into the genre. Karen Kingsbury was always an author I loved and I felt the need to read her later Baxter family books which had been published after I took a break. Like all her books, each one is powerful and very inspiring. In This Moment we meet one of the Baxter Sons - Luke and his family including his wife Reagan and children. We also meet High School Principal Wendell Quinn. These two will cross paths when Wendell finds himself being sued and Luke as his lawyer. Wendell is a Black High School Principal in a low-income area and is trying to get his school roll up and the students out of trouble. He has exhausted all his options and prayed to God. His last choice is to open a voluntary bible study - he hopes that making it voluntary means that he is within the law as he is not forcing religion on those who don't want to be there. Wendell though is about to find out the law is a very thin line as he becomes sued by one of the parents of the school. Can Luke help save Wendell from being thrown into jail as he tries to show the judge and jury the amazing things that have occurred because of the bible? I liked this story as it showed just how powerful religion can be when put in the right hands and done for the right reason and also at the same time, how scared and nervous people can become around the topic of religion and God. I am lucky to have been born in New Zealand as it hasn't been illegal to teach about religion in schools.
I am now looking forward to reading more of Karen Kingsbury and the Baxter Family stories.





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