Last weekend IÂ attended a conference, a wedding, family birthdays, and a visit to a church where friends I haven’t seen in years happen to attend. I heard people who love books wax eloquently about topics close to their hearts, I heard musicians make beautiful music, I watched a friend dance with his brand new baby…
I can’t wait for you to see our newest feature of the Warren & the World—Anne-Girl Reviews! Scroll on down (I mean, stop and read the articles we’ve highlighted for you, too) to see these mini-reviews of beloved books by Aletha Anne Smith. You’re gonna love them. Around the Web Responding to Our Sin Julianne…
I can’t wait for you to see our newest feature of the Warren & the World—Anne-Girl Reviews! Scroll on down (I mean, stop and read the articles we’ve highlighted for you, too) to see these mini-reviews of beloved books by Aletha Anne Smith. You’re gonna love them. Around the Web What to do With Feelings…
How is your February going? Where I live, we’re in daffodil season, and my allergy-suffering friends are beginning to struggle. As someone who grew up in Michigan, the concept of sunny February days is an odd one to me, but I don’t mind it too much. I would have loved to have a real winter,…
Well, friends, it has begun: my first “oh, goodness, I missed preparing The Warren & the World last week” moment hit me about 10 hours ago. It’s not that I don’t want to come hang out with you, it’s more that I get busy sometimes and forget. But my forgetfulness means a double-dose of Story…
It’s been a heavily theological week for me—between a paper I needed to write for a leadership development course at my church and my weekly Bible study’s focus being on seven key beliefs of Christianity, but for both of those things, I got to spend a lot of time thinking about the person of Jesus…
We have somehow managed to make it four weeks into 2024. I don’t quite know how it happened and if you asked me to tell you what I’d done in those four weeks I would probably need to look at my calendar and the past Warren & the World newsletter introductions to remember. But here…
I was talking with some coworkers today about how this January it has been particularly challenging to get back into the swing of things. We all gave each other grace in it—but found it was more of a struggle to give grace to ourselves. May you be gracious to everyone in your circles this week—including…
We’re nearly two weeks in to 2024: how’s it going so far? Here in Charlotte, we’ve already had a major storm that messed up the electricity in more than one of our buildings at church and kept kids home from school for a day, so I’d say we’re off to an exciting start. Around the…
We’ve turned the page to 2024, complete with all the reading challenges and resolutions and getting back to whatever we’re getting back to. I’ve got some reading challenges suggested in this newsletter. You can ignore them. I went to movement class today (I’m not quite calling it exercise—I was with my mom at her senior…
The good (maybe bad?) thing about how we title these emails is that I have a count at the end of each year to tell me how many weeks I missed—nine in 2023, I see. It was almost ten (you’ll note that this email is arriving to you late) because I’ve been with family and…
Merry Christmas! I mean, yeah, there are a few more days until the event, but I won’t see you again until after that, so Merry Christmas it is. Have a wonderful holiday, spending time with your family and celebrating the first coming of Jesus. Around the Web How to Rejoice at Christmas When Family Feels…
