A few weeks ago my eldest daughter turned fourteen, and we celebrated by taking a ferry to the peninsula (if you picture Washington state as a mitten, I explained to my younger girls, we traveled from the index finger to the thumb), where we spent the day exploring a fabulous, still-very-Victorian-looking town on the water. […]
4 Short Read-Alouds
Sometimes, you need a short read-aloud, one you can pick up and read here and there—at the park, say, or on a trip. You can’t commit months of your family’s life to reading it, and you need to be able to put it down for a few days or even a few weeks. Or you […]
The Apostles’ Creed | Ben Myers
My youngest daughter is in kindergarten which means that, when I teach art in her class, I get to hang out with kindergartners, who are some of the best people I know. By the time I get there, they’ve been in school for five hours, so they’re in a pleasant state of disarray—their hair wild, […]
Whether We Like It or Not
“He thinks that because he doesn’t like it, it’s just bad.” So said my middle-school daughter asshe lamented her friend’s dismissal of a song he dislikes—but that she does, in fact, like verymuch. And I laughed (then hastily assured her that of course I wasn’t laughing at her), becauseI had just come from a conversation […]
Sheltering Mercy | Ryan Whitaker Smith & Dan Wilt
The Book of Psalms, perhaps more than any other biblical book, has a way of striking us right at our center. All of Scripture has this effect, to some degree. But for all their curious imagery, the psalms are written in language we understand: the emotion in them is raw, sometimes unexpected, and always deeply […]
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