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Summary: Hope for the family
Review: By providing the reader with glimpses of his own extraordinary family life, Dr. Salwak presents perfect examples of the benefits of spirituality in the family as they apply to young and old alike. A must-read for newlyweds and the perfect gift for new parents. Faith In The Family is overflowing with practical advice to strengthen and enhance all familial relationships by demonstrating there is nothing more important in life than God and family.
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Summary: Things We Wish We Could Say
Review: Dale Salwak's "Faith in the Family" is a refreshing, reasurring and wonderful book. Not only does Dr. Salwak incorporate Christian values to everyday living, he provides a sense of right and honorable behavior even for non-Christians. I believe that everyone can not only read this book, but apply it to living a fufilling, fruitful and meaningful life. I had the great opportunity to take one of Dr. Salwak's classes at Citrus College, and this book was a great reminder of the substantial influence he had on me as an English student and as a Christian living in a secular world. Not only does the book say so many things people really think, but so many things so few of us say. It is a book that you cannot put down, in fact, I read it in about three hours. Dr. Salwak makes incredibly valid points about reading, education, and the influence of media in children's lives, and how that affects them in the long run, and brings up common sense ideas about family, marriage and faith. I highly reccommend this book to anyone who is looking for a good read, inspirational or otherwise. I am definitely passing it on to all of my freinds and family. Thank you Dr. Salwak for taking the time to write this much needed and appreciated book. I only wish I had the oppurtunity to take another of your classes.
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Summary: Things We Wish We Could Say
Review: Dale Salwak's "Faith in the Family" is a refreshing, reasurring and wonderful book. Not only does Dr. Salwak incorporate Christian values to everyday living, he provides a sense of right and honorable behavior even for non-Christians. I believe that everyone can not only read this book, but apply it to living a fufilling, fruitful and meaningful life. I had the great opportunity to take one of Dr. Salwak's classes at Citrus College, and this book was a great reminder of the substantial influence he had on me as an English student and as a Christian living in a secular world. Not only does the book say so many things people really think, but so many things so few of us say. It is a book that you cannot put down, in fact, I read it in about three hours. Dr. Salwak makes incredibly valid points about reading, education, and the influence of media in children's lives, and how that affects them in the long run, and brings up common sense ideas about family, marriage and faith. I highly reccommend this book to anyone who is looking for a good read, inspirational or otherwise. I am definitely passing it on to all of my freinds and family. Thank you Dr. Salwak for taking the time to write this much needed and appreciated book. I only wish I had the oppurtunity to take another of your classes.
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Summary: Splendid, inspiring memories
Review: For decades, magicians the world over have known Dale Salwak as a fellow performer, one of the most well known of Neil Foster's students and, ultimately, a primary instructor for the world-famous Chavez School of Magic. In addition to having written a number of books on magic, Dale teaches the Chavez method in California, and supervises the school's home-study course and its worldwide distribution. Outside of the world of performing, Dale's "other job" is as a literary biographer and literature professor. He teaches English at Southern California's Citrus College and has taught courses and conducted seminars on biblical history and literature for more than 25 years. In that role, he has written 17 books on various contemporary literary figures as well as served as editor of "Wonders of Solitude" and "The Words of Christ," both published by New World Library. In "Faith in the Family" (246 pp.), Dale tells amusing, poignant stories from his own family life that illustrate what families offer children and parents alike. Among the many examples of exemplary individuals, Dale has included eight pages devoted to his personal memories of Neil and Jeanne Foster. We were proud and honored to be approached by Dale to look over his original manuscript pages regarding Neil and Jeanne, and to serve in an advisory capacity. We were moved by the material and wholeheartedly endorse it as a splendid testament to the memory of a couple revered in the magical fraternity and beyond. Those in the conjuring profession who had the privilege of knowing Neil Foster in his lifetime know well that he regarded the "magic of life" as far more important and vital than the magic that he created on the stage, or helped other magicians to create. For him, *people* and *responsibility* were far more magical. We hope that you will join us in that memory and support Dale Salwak in this worthwhile project! -- John C. Sherwood, MysteryVisits.com
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Summary: Warm and insightful
Review: I was moved by the way the fabric of faith was woven into each book chapter, as it should be entwined into each page of my life. This book gave me a new perspective on my family and their enternal value. Dale Salwak has the heart of a storyteller and the pen of a poet.
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Summary: Warm and insightful
Review: I was moved by the way the fabric of faith was woven into each book chapter, as it should be entwined into each page of my life. This book gave me a new perspective on my family and their enternal value. Dale Salwak has the heart of a storyteller and the pen of a poet.
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Summary: Gotta have faith
Review: It was with reservations that I began reading Faith in the Family, Citrus College English Professor Dale Salwak's latest effort. I am not a churchgoer, and I am a former Salwak student, two prejudicial factors for any would-be objective reviewer.By page 18, however, Salwak's firm grasp of the English language, storytelling ability and messages about family values and faith struck a cord within me. Stories from the author's own life, as well as from a variety of people with diverse backgrounds, illustrate what families can offer to children and parents alike. These lessons are reinforced with scripture passages and quotations from notable novelists, poets and biographers to provide the reader with a subsequent understanding of the importance of familial relationships. Salwak is thoughtful and insightful, weaving together tales of his youth with powerful imagery and clarity. He possess the uncanny ability to recollect the feeling of what it was like to be a child, lacking experience but full of curiousity. In one particularly moving passage, the reader is taken back to the author's earlier years to illustrate an important lesson he learned about giving thanks for the lives of his family. Faith in the Family is arranged into nine chapters, each touching on a different aspect of family life. The need for connection in the family, caring for and teaching children, respecting and relating to our own parents and other subjects are explored, always relating back to the book's central theme of "honoring and strengthening home and spirit." The overarching spirituality and religious tones in the book are not crammed down the readers' throats. Rather, the inherent insights were carefully collected, then constructed and compassionately pieced together to appeal to readers from all walks of life. The book overflows with practical advice and should be passed around by family members to share in its wonderful wisdom. In the midst of the Information Age, with school shootings and political sex scandals topping the news, there is a definite need for Faith in the Family. Salwak shows readers through experience the indispensability of family, and the nature of the book itself -- part history, part story and part advice -- allow the reader to examine their own relationships and form their own interpretations of its guidance. Truly an essential read, Faith in the Family's advice offers a "how-to" approach to help reap the rewards of family living.
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