It’s Launch Week for Jack Zulu and the Waylander’s Key and we couldn’t be more excited! If you haven’t yet ordered your copy of S.D. Smith’s newest, co-written with his son, J.C. Smith, you should get on that! Grab your copy here! Around the Web 5 New, Memory-Making Advent Traditions If you’re looking for new ways to slow […]
Library Heroes
For millennia the written word has held special significance among those whose faith is centered on scripture. Some ancient Jewish and Islamic traditions imposed safeguards to prevent the desecration of any piece of writing—sacred or secular—that might bear God’s name. Christian history is marked by missionaries and others who made literacy and education a priority, […]
Teach Us To Play
I’m scrambling up the climbing wall behind my four-year-old. It’s Wednesday morning at 9:47 AM. Two nannies and a clutch of coffee cup cradling moms-with-toddlers are glancing nervously at the middle-aged woman in a skirt giving full battle cry while scaling Mount Etna behind her fearsome warrior. He reaches the top, gives a piercing ululation […]
The Warren & The World Vol 10, Issue 40
It was unintentional that I found two articles about adoption that were worth sharing this week, but (in addition to their worth), they remind me of the beautiful picture that adoption is of our place in God’s family. May you remember you are chosen today. Around the Web Hurrah for the Seasons Holly Mackle reminds […]
Stories For A Lifetime
I lead a book club, a small group of church friends who enjoy letting me challenge them with a variety of diverse and beautiful books. We have made it through a wide variety of stories, from Jason Reynald’s Long Way Down to Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. It was over discussion of Virgil Wander (by the brilliant […]