For me, the first years are lost. Golly, that’s a great opening sentence, isn’t it? After reading it on the first page of the new middle-grade graphic novel, When Stars are Scattered, I immediately had questions. The first years of what? Why were they lost? The only solution: keep reading. The answers that unfold on […]
Prince Caspian and the Best Thing of All
Like any true fan of Narnia, I’ve read or listened to C.S. Lewis’ masterpieces so many times I’ve almost got them memorized. But revisiting always brings something new and fresh. Prince Caspian did that for me this summer. Aslan is on the move, the Kings and Queens of old have returned and Narnia is about […]
A Sudden Joyous Turn
NOTE: This piece first appeared in The Rabbit Room, and then on Story Warren in 2013. It seems fitting to re-visit it now. So my nine-year-old son Aedan just finished reading Tolkien’s The Return of the King for the first time. He came downstairs after he finished and we talked about the ending, about the […]
“Summer” Escapes to More Temperate Times
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 […]
What God’s Family Looks Like: A Review of God’s Very Good Idea
Maybe race is something our family has always talked about, however imperfectly, because of who we are. We may be your average white American family, but our extended family is made up of immigrants and the children of immigrants; some of its members are different races and ethnicities. And it’s absolutely beautiful. But even in […]
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