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The Poisonwood Bible
There are currently 1,545 reviews of this novel already listed at Amazon. What can I possibly add? Nothing. Yet I’ve just had my own personal experience of the book nonetheless. I blog partly…
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Blending in
We had no internet until this afternoon, so I’ve missed one of my favorite memes — the What’s On Your Nightstand roundup at 5 Minutes for Books. It was a rounding-up kind of…
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Week in Words: Signs
As I drove through Owego the other day, 2 1/2 weeks or so after the Susquehanna crested at 15 feet above flood stage and washed most of the town in toxic river sludge,…
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Sacred Reading
If someone had mentioned “sacred reading” to me before this week, I would have assumed they meant a literary genre — a category of books focused on sacred topics. But since delving into…
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Monarch Madness: Summing Up
We first started looking for monarch caterpillars in early August. I’ve posted on our experience as it has unfolded, and as the adventure draws to a close I want to sum up and…
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Prophetic Untimeliness
In Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance (2009), Os Guinness explores the fascination with relevance that permeates evangelicalism, diagnosing it as a result of our uncritical immersion in our current…
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Not subject
The very first essay I read by Wendell Berry was “The Rise,” from his collection The Long-Legged House. It describes a canoe ride on the Kentucky River during one of its winter rises.…
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Those who mourn
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” The words went through my mind as I drove through Owego for the first time since the flood last Wednesday. Everyone uses the…
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“Watching Peeper”: A 10-year-old’s nature journal
I don’t often post my daughters’ work online, for various reasons. But I’m making an exception for my 10-year-old’s “Watching Peeper” journal pages about her monarch caterpillar. As you can see, she enjoys…
