Nonfiction
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Routine Exercise vs. Real Desire
My Bible-reading has been progressing slowly through the Old Testament. It’s taken me about two years, but I’m at last up to Haggai, so it’s safe to say the end is in sight.…
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Nurturing the imagination
Seeing Past Z: Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World is a memoir. It offers Beth Kephart’s experience as a mother cultivating in her child a love of reading, reflection, and imaginative vitality.…
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For the Children’s Sake: I am, I can, I ought, I will
For the Children’s Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School, published in 1984, represents an argument to rethink educational priorities in light of the ideas of British educator Charlotte Mason (1842-1923). Written…
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The Abolition of Man: Contemplating Skepticism
Stepping outside the Tao, they have stepped into the void. Nor are their subjects necessarily unhappy men. They are not men at all: they are artefacts. Man’s final conquest has proved to be…
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Great Possessions
I’ve had Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer’s Journal on my shelf for years. I kept passing it over for more “compelling” fare. Fortunately I didn’t pass it over this time. The book has…
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
In the eighties, a movie came out called The Gods Must Be Crazy. A pilot flying over the Kalahari desert in South Africa tosses his empty Coke bottle out the window, and it…
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Mudhouse Sabbath
Yesterday in Sunday school, my friend Polly extracted some excerpts from the chapter in this book about mourning. A young mother known to many people at church had died earlier in the week…
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Technopoly
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology has been on my shelf for 12 years. At the Asbury College faculty retreat in the fall of 1997, the Provost gave us all a copy…
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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder
I read Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend for the first time in the fall of 2007. My daughters and I had been exploring the earlier Little House books for…
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Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead performs a necessary surgery for me. It peels back layers of resignation and hopelessness and returns me to the true gospel, the true good news: Jesus came to give us…