Nonfiction
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Chesterton’s advice to writers
Some passages just need to be shared. This one is from the chapter “The Romance of Orthodoxy” (in Orthodoxy). Chesterton is on his way to a larger point, but I have to stop…
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A larger and truer confession
Someone forwarded Ben Stein’s CBS Sunday Morning “Confession” to me by email. Mr. Stein uses the following exchange as a springboard for discussing God’s alleged departure from America: Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed…
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Reading the OED
There’s a word for me: Anonymuncule (n.) An anonymous, small-time writer. Turns out there are words for all kinds of things, more words than any of us knew about. Ammon Shea discovered this…
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The Practice of the Presence of God
Recently, a few friends and I realized that though we all possessed this book, none of us had read it. We’d felt that we should read it, and perhaps had tried, but none…
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The Knowledge of the Holy
“Who made God?” I overheard my youngest daughter’s question from the other room. “No one,” my husband replied. “It’s a hard thing to understand. We’re so used to everything being made that we…
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The Divine Conspiracy
How do I talk about this book? Or maybe it’s more accurate to ask, how do I talk about anything but this book? It has a way of getting into your thought life…
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84, Charing Cross Road
I read 84, Charing Cross Road in one evening. And though its call number makes it plain that it’s a nonfictional work, somehow I forgot this as I was reading. An epistolary novel…
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Bible 101
I’m taking a break from From God To Us. It’s full of knowledge I want, but it’s a little dry. I’m about halfway through it, and I’m going to set it aside for…
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Reflections on the Psalms
I have to be honest: the book of Psalms has never been a favorite of mine. It’s been praised so often by others that I’m quite willing to accept that the fault is…
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A story of courage
What would you do if your toddler stopped talking expressively, and began echoing your words? Or if he spent hours arranging his toys into intricate patterns only to stare at them? Or if…
