Why is it that so often our life in this modern world prevents us from living; no time for pausing or reflecting? Days roll into weeks, weeks into months, and before we know it, it’s Christmas. After a week or so of vacation we are suddenly packing up the Christmas and New Year’s decorations. Then […]
Courageous: Inspiring Courage Through Classic Literature
My little girl comes to me in the middle of the night. Crying, she asks me how to stop worrying. She’s struggled with anxiety for years now, even though she’s still young. I wish I could offer her five easy steps that would rid of her all of her troubles, forever. I wish I knew […]
Junction Tales: A Review
Stories are inevitable. You do the living, and stories will happen….they become the fabric that holds a place together, the beating heart of its people. These are a few golden nuggets from the prologue of Glenn McCarty’s Junction Tales, a collection of short stories from the world of Tumbleweed Thompson. If you’ve read his epic […]
A Christmas Story from Eugene
Eugene Peterson was a Presbyterian minister, scholar, theologian, author, poet, and storyteller. Eugene passed away in 2018, but his books and sermons will continue to challenge and encourage so many of us in our walks with Jesus. I am one of the multitude that has benefited from Peterson’s masterful way with words. Every time I […]
Christmas with Little Women
“Everything old is new again,” so they say—a trend that I think is true of books, too, no doubt helped along by all the recent reboots, remakes, and reimaginings of old stories for new audiences at the movies. I am so excited for this coming Christmas release of a new film adaptation of Little Women, […]
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