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Glimpses of Spring
I’ve been mulling over what to do with my nature blog. It has been about nine months since I posted anything there. I’m thinking of trying to import the content to Across the…
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Always ahead of culture
Deep down, though, these extra rules for women became a subtle reinforcement of the self-condemning framework I already lived in. Every time I had to remind myself not to look someone in the…
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Recent Reads: A Schmidt-fest and a memoir
After enjoying the Wednesday Wars, I forged ahead to Okay for Now, Gary D. Schmidt’s companion book written from the perspective of the Wednesday Wars’ narrator’s classmate. Doug Swieteck is a different kind…
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Recent Reading
The Pursuit of God (A.W. Tozer). This was a clarifying read about the need to seek God personally rather than coast along being a good soldier in church. Tozer argues that evangelicalism promulgates…
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Fake news and Charles Dickens
Lately we’ve heard repeated warnings that the term “fake news” threatens the basic underpinnings of democracy. The free press is essential to informing the American people, we’re told, and this term of derision…
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Not that simple
My oldest is taking a photography elective in our homeschool co-op this semester. The class is creating a yearbook for us. Last week, the teacher discussed how photographing people can be honoring of…
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Mere Christianity
Somehow, I’ve never been able to read this book before. I’ve tried a few times but never gotten beyond the first few pages. Recently I tried again with the help of an audiobook…
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Devilishly Clever
The Screwtape Letters. Most of us have read it at one time or another. I reread it this week with my daughters and was struck again by its often disturbing relevance and genius.…
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“Middle age” and church
I routinely struggle to understand my feelings toward church. This week, as the girls and I read The Screwtape Letters together, I hear the senior devil’s advice on how to tempt Christians away…
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Peace Like a River
How could I have forgotten — or did I somehow miss it before? — the power and mysterious beauty of Leif Enger’s Peace Like a River? I pulled it off the shelf a…