One of the problems that I’ve experienced within the local church is the lack of community. Or, even more specifically, the lack of the interior community of the church to engage with the exterior community […]
I rarely cry over children’s books. I have cried repeatedly while reading Songs for Our Sons to my son. It’s something different every time. Let me tell you about them. The first time was the […]
I didn’t know what to expect from a Dekker family team-up. Now I don’t know if I want them to do anything else. That was one of the concluding lines of my review of the […]
The second Millie Maven book opens with Millie yet to discover her gift, but in possession of something much greater: a bronze medallion from the Great Teacher himself. It’s caused some consternation among some of […]
The first book in the Millie Maven trilogy introduces us to Millie. Millie is, like so many young people in these kinds of stories, an orphan with a strict, loveless caretaker. Mother—actually her aunt—has very […]
“Love welled up inside her, and she stood to her feet. Her knees weren’t even wobbly. She picked up the bag she had packed, straightened, and held her head up, meeting his eye. She put […]
Even though I am a lifelong C.S. Lewis fan, I was not aware of his published narrative poem, Dymer, until I started reading his collected journals from the 1920s. He wrote regularly then about how […]
“Where there is wealth and power, there is also someone who is willing to do anything to take it.” In medieval England, there was very little middle class. You were either poor or rich and […]
It’s been ten years since Melanie and Olivia have had any meaningful sisterly interactions. It’s also been ten years since their parents were killed in crash that sent their car over a mountain. These two […]
I’m pretty sure I begin every review of Biblical fiction with this phrase: Biblical fiction is hard to write. If you stray too far from what’s known of the biblical story, readers will shout at […]
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