Christy Fitzwater 3 Minute Read My mother-in-law gave me a beautiful Dutch oven for Christmas. Because I had been watching consecutive episodes of Food Network shows, I felt expert in using such fine cooking equipment. Until I read the instructions. Cast iron is intimidating. You can’t put it in the dishwasher. Can’t let it air dry. Can’t allow it to…
Elisabeth Adams 4 Minute Read Where do you suppose shame comes from? I posed this question to a women’s Bible class recently, and one young woman replied, “From Adam and Eve.” From two leaf-clad sinners, trembling with shame in the bushes because they’d just distrusted the most loving Person in their life…and all for a bite of fruit. (Oh, tragedy:…
Callie Mitchell 8 Minute Read Last year, I left a conversation filled with inspiration and wonder, after learning from my dear friend, filmmaker Sarah Williams, the process involved in adapting a shared favorite novel into a film. For this year’s March of Books, I thought I might invite Sarah into the discussion to help us get to the bottom of…
Gretchen Louise 6 Minute Read Every time I read a good work of fiction, I am reminded of why Jesus spoke in parables. I am subconsciously judging the actions being described before I realize how closely they mirror my own. I become wrapped up in the story before I realize it is about me. From Stepping Heavenward to None So Blind,…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 2 Minute Read I first discovered Kaitlyn Bouchillon in the blogosphere. The way she writes is deep and insightful and lovely, like the lilting way raindrops fall on a car roof. So when I discovered she wrote a book, I knew I had to read it. What is the book about? Why don’t I let Kaitlyn share in…
Jeannie Pederson 2 Minute Read When I was single, I read a lot of relationship books. Sometimes they were encouraging, but often I would start trying to “read” them into my own relationships. “Oh, that sounds similar to what that guy said to me last week! Maybe he likes me and this is the beginning of our love story!” Being…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read Have you ever picked up a maple seed just to drop it and watch it twirl gently to the ground on its own pair of wings? What if you were small enough that you could use one of those maple seeds as a whirli-gig sort of parachute for you and a pal? The Larkin are….
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….
Callie Mitchell 5 Minute Read “‘Come on, rain!’ I say.” As I read the opening line to this small children’s book, words printed on a warm yellow page, I knew it was providential that someone had left it on the shelf. We were at services with our congregation in Jerusalem. For a reason that I can no longer recall, the…
Elisabeth Adams 11 Minute Read In August 2014, Thomas Umstattd, Jr. published his blog post, “Why Courtship is Fundamentally Flawed.” It sparked a firestorm, racking up more than 1,500 comments, provoking numerous rebuttals from other bloggers, and inspiring a Kickstarter campaign that led (just one year later) to a book entitled Courtship in Crisis: The Case for Traditional Dating. I…
Caroline Rose Sanders 9 Minute Read “How in the world am I supposed to find someone to marry in this day and age?” I posed this question, rather loudly, to my mother. My mother, the woman who has been married for over thirty years. The woman who was not only married by my age, but parenting already. It was late at night and…
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…
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