Emily C. Gardner 11 Minute Read Thoughts of talking mice brandishing swords, boys turned into dragons, and the sticky sweet taste of Turkish Delight have filled the imaginative landscape of young and old for decades. I know I’m not the only one who wondered if the magical land of Narnia might exist through one of my closets. Selling over 100 million…
Elisabeth Allen 11 Minute Read “The preoccupation of seventeen-year-old girls don’t seem to change much from generation to generation. But in every generation, there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy was one of the few.” (Elisabeth Elliot in A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael) The thing I love most about women…
Elisabeth Allen 6 Minute Read “God’s women, down through the centuries, have enjoyed a freedom the world will find difficult to understand – the freedom to be and to do that which God intended.” (Ruth Bell Graham, endorsing Believers: Lessons from Women of Powerful Faith by Gien Karssen) I think I started wondering what it meant to be a woman…
Caroline Rose Sanders 9 Minute Read Looking back at my teenage years is a bit of a blur, even though they were not all that long ago. I think it’s a blur because of all of the deep confusion I felt at times, and the dozens of enormous, seemingly insurmountable questions I was facing. I led a sheltered, happy life as…
Chantel 13 Minute Read I grew up on a steady diet of missionary stories. During the long Alaskan winters of my childhood, we had hours of read-aloud time. Curled up around our trusty wood stove, we soaked in the words and the life experiences of some of the greatest heroes of faith: missionaries. David Livingston, J. Hudson Taylor, “Ai-weh-deh“,…
Caroline Rose Sanders 6 Minute Read I’m not a mom and I don’t know if I ever will be, but I cannot remember a time before I stepped (or toddled) into my role of big sister. My younger siblings are two, three, six, ten, eleven and twelve years younger than I, and came into our family from all over the world….
Rachelle Rea Cobb 6 Minute Read When I’m in a new phase of life, the first thing I turn to is a good book. When I was learning how to write, I read books on the craft of writing. When I wanted to be published, I read books about queries and contracts. When I wanted to learn more about relationships, I…
Gretchen Louise 7 Minute Read One of these years, I am going to try wrapping up a few books to open and read each day of Advent. This year, I felt like I was planning ahead by getting out of the box of Christmas books before Thanksgiving was past. Sometime, I’ll make a careful, chronological list of the books I want to read…
Shannon Coe 6 Minute Read What if someone whispered in your ear, “Slow down, savor these moments better” ? It’s hustle and bustle time and we race and fill every moment in the name of worship and traditions. We have a tendency to heap on ourselves activities to make this time memorable and meaningful. But what if the key to…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read I don’t know anyone who would say that their life has been a bed of roses. There are good times and there are hard times and they come to each of us. As bibliophiles, we go to books in the hard times just as we do in the happy times. Several members of our writing…
Natalie Nyquist 5 Minute Read I rarely re-read books. Except the old favorites like Little Women, Chronicles of Narnia…you know. But to re-read a book written recently–I usually have so many books on my in pile that such is not a luxury I can afford even if I wanted to. Most books are good the first time but I have…
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