Summer seems sundered a little sooner each and every year. I remember wandering through an Ohio Valley August that burnt brown, the fields around my Lexington, Kentucky, home so blasted and brittle it was as if they’d been baked in an oven, the sky a shining sheet every bit as flat and hot as an […]

If you’re a doctrinally focused type (and I definitely deserve that descriptor), then picking a children’s Bible for bedtime reading can be a chore. Bad options abound, books that are either too twee or too serious. Too old-fashioned or too progressive. Too doctrinal or too loose with essentials. Too … well, you get the idea. […]

Note: I received a review copy of this title from the publisher. Over the years, I’m sad to say that parts of my undergraduate experience have sloughed off, scoured away by the pressures of life. But I doubt I’ll ever forget Dr. Mark Talbot, my sophomore-year philosophy professor. He’d broken his back at the age […]

Anyone remember Beverly Cleary’s celebrated series of Ramona novels? The eight books centering on the childhood of one Ramona Quimby captured my attention early. I remember reading about Ramona’s sister Beezus arguing with her mother as to whether or not they’d made a wrong turn in the car. I remember how Ramona squeezed an entire […]