Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
12 'Christian' Beliefs That Can Drive You Crazy
Henry Cloud & John Townsend · 2009
🎙 Narrated by Jonathan Petersen
82/100
👍 Worth It
This is the strongest pick of the batch — two licensed psychologists take on twelve guilt-inducing 'beliefs' that aren't actually biblical and offer real relief, not just diagnosis. It's credible, practical, and still holds up well despite being written in the early 2000s. Jonathan Petersen's clean, unabridged narration makes it well worth the listen.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: good Jonathan Petersen's unabridged narration is clean and clear across the roughly 6.5-hour runtime.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness82
Craft & writing80
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy82
Hype vs delivers70
Age-fit88
Human-eye read82
Penny’s verdict82
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