One of our favorite parts of the day is reading the emails you write us here at Kindred Grace. Sometimes, you're writing with prayer requests or to share a story close to your heart. Other times, you're writing with a question, a plea for help. And one of the most common themes to your questions is ... read more
Around the Table with Shauna Niequist (a trio of reviews)
by Gretchen Louise and Emily C. Gardner Gretchen: I'm funny about getting new books by an author I haven't read yet. It doesn't matter if half the internet is talking about them--I usually wait until a dozen friends have told me, "You will love this book" before I actually pick up a copy. Such was ... read more
A Quiet Person in a Noisy World
by Denise J. HughesThe small bell on the door announces the arrival of more guests. The store resembles a living room — with cushions on the floor for reading and toys in a basket for playing. This humble bookstore boasts the charm of a private enterprise. It’s the kind of bookstore I love ... read more
When Firstborns Collide
by K.J. Tanner My daughter and I are both the firstborn children in our family. We’re both high achieving, highly motivated, natural leaders. We both know what other people should be doing and spend most of our time running around like a chicken with our heads cut off. I like order and schedules ... read more
Learning Styles: One Homeschooling Momma’s Inadvertent Journey
by Simply Darlene God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth and all the animals of the sea and the birds of the air and the critters of dry land, is also the One who made man. And in making us, He created us in His image (Genesis 1:27); but, He also swiped both our outsides and our insides with ... read more
On Writing from the Heart
by Nicole Unice The summer that I wrote my first book, I got a tattoo on the inside of my wrist. I didn’t get it to be a cool “rebel” Christian. I got it because it was my attempt at making myself write honest.The tattoo is one Greek word. The word is “tharseo” and it means “take heart.” As in, ... read more
A Peek Into Your Education (link-up)
"To educate the mind without purifying the heart, is but to place a sharp sword in the hand of a madman." -Robert Lewis Dabney Discussions, Vol. IV, (Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 1979)We've been talking about education all month...and now it's time to take a peek into each other's education! ... read more
October: A Peek Into Your Education
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” -Robert Maynard Hutchins Each October we take a peek into each others' lives, focusing on one theme throughout the month at ylcf.org and then giving everyone an opportunity to share in the link-up at the ... read more
Dear Me
The blogosphere has been full of letters to our teenage selves this past week, in celebration of Emily Freeman’s new book Graceful (For Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life. And it was quite a trip down memory lane for some of the writers here at YLCF who decided to join in. We've ... read more
the joy of books
because you always knew books came to life when the bookstore closed each evening... (feed readers, come on over to watch the video!) ... read more
