The Falling of Dusk: The 2023 Lent Book

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Writing for GameSpot, Mark Delaney gave high praise to the motion comic artwork, audio drama presentation, quality voice acting, thoughtful thematic material, impactful choices, and the developer's keen understanding of pacing and characterization, but took issue with out-of-place action scenes and an ending hampered by sequel baiting. There is bitterness, anger and history here, but there is also the capacity for negotiation, forgiveness and hope.

Its narrative is a multi-generational story about "two families whose trajectories collide in the Arizona desert in 1998. The brothers robbed the Sheriff to pay off his debts and remove the threat to their lives from his debtors. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Paul's book puts into critical conversation some of the great doubters of religion with the breadth of the Christian tradition and contemporary theological voices.

Weaving his personal experiences of reporting from the front lines of the world's flashpoints, together with his deep understanding of politics, history and philosophy, he explores what is driving the world to crisis and how it might be averted.

The author is unafraid to embark on this task by also looking at those not normally found in the pages of a devotional book: from classic thinkers such as Nietzsche and Freud to more recent voices such as Christopher Hitchens. Aimed at those who embrace, reject, or are uncertain about faith, Paul Dominiak invites us to reflect in unconventional ways on our assumptions, anxieties, suspicions and beliefs through a conventional Lenten form of meditation. Many paragraphs are long, it takes a bit of concentration to follow what is being said, and occasionally terms used are not explained.I highly recommend it for anyone who wants something that doesn't just pose the normal run of questions usually found in Lent books. I hope it can shift the horizon for both about what faith means, the value of questioning and doubt, and how to have better conversations together. I hope people come ready to struggle with questions about faith, belief, and doubt without predetermined conclusions. In the end, if we are unafraid to face our doubts they can, he argues, serve our faith rather than diminish it. Now, with the inexorable rise of China, the ascendancy of authoritarianism and the retreat of democracy, the world stands at a moment of crisis.

In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of history' and the triumph of liberal democracy in 1989. Writing for The Guardian, Keza MacDonald gave the title 4 stars out of 5, concluding, " As Dusk Falls comfortably exceeds the standard of its genre when it comes to plotting, characterization, performance and the impressive malleability of the story.The event was stimulating and at times challenging as Paul invited everyone to reflect on our preconceptions and beliefs, and the readings and panel discussion sparked interesting and thoughtful questions from the audience. Depending on decisions made, Vanessa can abandon Jay or agree to run away to Canada with him as a friend or lover. Throughout the book, there is an open-hearted generosity of spirit, and a strong faith in the way the Crucifixion demonstrates God's redemptive love. Jeannie Kendall is a retired Baptist minister, a current tutor on the Pastoral Supervision course at Spurgeon’s College, and the author of Finding Our Voice and Held in Your Bottle, with a third book Heroes or Villains? A series of chapters on the seven last words of Christ take us well beyond the normal boundaries of Christian thinking.