Lanier Ivester 2 Minute Read I love that Jesus taught in stories. That has always given a lift to my writer’s heart, has always made the effort of putting pen to paper seem so worthwhile. In His parables He comprehended the fact that we are a story-loving lot, that tales of the just and the unjust are a universal language…
Natalie Nyquist 4 Minute Read I’m not much of a collector unless you count foreign currency or books. That said, I admit one shelf of books is special. There resides the copies of my autographed copies of favorite books. Joshua Harris, Rebecca St. James, Bryan Davis (I’ve never seen my brother so excited for his sister to receive a book…
Natalie Nyquist 3 Minute Read From kindergarten on, the public library became one of my favorite places–due in part to its abundance of the classic children’s books I loved so much. My first library. Can anything match the adventure of hurrying through the glass doors towards stacks of literary delight? I can still see the location of my favorite books…
Lanier Ivester 2 Minute Read What could be a more delightful prospect than dinner on a tray by the fire (Chinese take-out, at that!) and a pot of orange blossom tea, and a brand new (old) Elizabeth Goudge book? I was so excited to start this one last night—I felt like I was spending the evening with an old friend….
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read “Ah! the true rule is—a wife in her husband’s house is his servant; it is in his heart that she is queen. Whatever of the best he can conceive, it is her part to be; whatever of the highest he can hope, it is hers to promise; all that is dark in him she must…
Elisabeth Adams 1 minute No, I do not have a friend named Barbara Buncle. However, the book belonging to this title is an old friend of mine. If you’ve ever read D. E. Stevenson, then you know what a light, relaxing, thoroughly British read she provides. Although she wrote in the thirties and forties, her characters are fully as…
Elisabeth Adams 3 Minute Read All summer, I’ve been reading, reading, reading. Taking advantage of living near libraries that actually stock books in English. (!) Mostly fiction, especially the new crop of finely-crafted Christian fiction. Not that dime-store stuff. Not that nutrient-free fiction with the Christian sticker, like cotton candy labelled “all natural” and you thinking it’s healthy. No, something…
Lanier Ivester 2 Minute Read My sister and I have always held that this is the perfect time of year to be reading a Lucy Maud Montgomery book. No matter how many times they’ve been read and re-read—the condition of my beloved paperbacks is quite appalling!—there is just something about September that seems to evoke a mood sufficiently wistful to…
Natalie Nyquist 2 Minute Read Every child should have the joy of growing up with Tales of the Kingdom by David and Karen Mains. Along with Tales of the Resistance and its more recent conclusion to the trilogy titled Tales of the Restoration, Kingdom Tales impacted my imagination and memory more than almost any other book besides Narnia. Proof can be found…
Lanier Ivester 2 Minute Read My husband and I are reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time. I blush to admit it; we’ve had the best of intentions over the past few years since we read–and adored–The Hobbit. We’ve been surrounded by friends who are ardent lovers of all things Middle-earth. We were even stung by…
Lanier Ivester 4 Minute Read I got out my calendar a few days ago and counted how many weeks I have left of my summer. I’m almost half-way there. Having no children in school—and not being in school myself—I’ve had the freedom the past several years to set the arbitrary, if reasonable, borders of June 1st to August 31st. September…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read For a single girl, I must have a record number of books on marriage. My man and I often laugh about how many books on relationships I have read, versus the number he has read. (It would probably be something like 100 to 1/2, except I don’t know how many relationship books I have actually…
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