Growing up, I loved the Little House books and my mom and I watched 'Little House On The Prairie' (her favorite show) often so when I seen this book was available on NetGalley, it peaked my interest. I really enjoyed this! It was interesting to learn about Laura's life and how her faith shaped it. If you enjoy(ed) Laura's books or love history, this might be right up your alley and I would recommend it! Special Thank You to John J. Fry, Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Company and NetGalley for allowing me to read a complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review.

An interesting read but not one that I will read again. I love Laura's books and this was an interesting insight into her real life.

Fantastic book! I was hooked from the beginning. I thought it was well written and the story flowed well. I was engaged from start to finish. I am a history buff and this book was right up my ally. I will definitely be recommending this book to others and I will buy a copy for myself as well.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for letting me review this book. I enjoyed the little House books as a kid. I think it’s definitely a shocker when as a kid; you learn that everything in the books didn’t happen. In a way, I thought Laura would be more open with her faith but this wasn’t the case.

Thank you to NetGalley and to Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company for an ARC of this book.

I was really excited to get approved to read this book. I am a really big fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder and have read a lot about her over the years.

This book however was really disappointing to me. It was really boring to me. I really struggled to finish this one.

I found this to be a very interesting book! If you enjoy learning about history and religion, this is a great resource! I've always admired Laura Ingalls Wilder, and I enjoyed learning about how religion was a part of her life!
There are a lot of facts and interesting tidbits. I recommend reading this if you are interested in learning about Laura's faith and how it affected her life!

I received a copy of the book via Netgalley by the publisher. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Unfortunately, this was not for me. I initially thought this would be about the faith of Laura Ingalls. However, apart from Lauara stating she was uncomfortable sharing her faith as she thought ones relationship with God was private, that's about all her faith that was detailed. This story did recap in great detail the life story of the Ingalls family, and although it was very informative, it read like a college paper. I ultimately did not finish and do not forsee myself reading any more books in the Library of Religious Biography series.

Thank you, NetGalley, and Wm B. Eerdman's Publishing Company for the opportunity to read and review this advanced copy.

I loved the Little House b0oks when I read them as a child and I usually enjoy spiritual memoirs, but A Prairie Faith was a waste of my time. I stopped reading about a third of the way through and would not have gotten that far if I did not feel an obligation to review it fairly in return for a free copy provided by NetGalley.
A Prairie Faith is NOT about Laura Ingalls Wilder's faith. It is a blow by blow description of every petty detail of her life, the lives of her relatives, friends, neighbors, teachers, and what appears to be those of every minister who served in any of the communities in which she lived, whether or not she ever heard them preach. Aside from a few adolescent poems (and they are barely poems, more like derivative doggerel full of borrowed sentiments and rhymes borrowed from things she read) it appears that Laura never wrote anything specifically religious. Articles Laura wrote for newspapers and church magazines seem to deal mainly with stories about other people rather than any of her own ideas. There are quotes from what appear to be journal entries in which Laura explains that she is not comfortable with the expressive religiosity of many church meetings because she sees a relationship with God as a private matter. It seems to me that John Fry and the other writers who felt the urge to write about this subject should have resisted that urge out of respect for the subject's own preference.
The author's most accurate term is the word "probably" as he derived what are clearly his opinions from the flimsiest references. It seems obvious that Laura was a cultural Christian, raised by Protestant parents who taught her to pray, attend church when convenient, and read the Bible. In this, they were no different than most of their neighbors. It seems impossible to have any real understanding of the depth or sincerity of Laura's actual beliefs based on this book, which was based on other secondary sources, mainly the Little House novels, a memoir Laura wrote called Pioneer Girl, books written and/or ghostwritten by her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, a professional writer and nonbeliever who was not above inserting religious content if it seemed appropriate. He also appears to have used tertiary sources by other writers whose analysis of Laura's beliefs vary based on their own.
It is one thing to dislike the content of a book but I also found A Prairie Faith to be incredibly dry and dull. I could not force myself to finish reading it and I will not be reading any of the author's other work. I will likely avoid any of the titles in the series Library of Religious Biography.

I really like the concept of this book, since I have loved the Little House books and show since I was a little kid, but unfortunately (for the time being, anyway), I am marking this title as DNF. This is because of two reasons: Firstly, the formatting is really wacky, which makes for some confusing reading. This may be my Kindle's fault, but I do not know. The second issue that I have is that it is very repetitive, reiterating the same points over and over again. However once the final edited publication is released, I will probably try it again!