I didn’t realize when I was reading Simonetta Car’s biography on Lady Jane Grey to my kids that this week marks the anniversary of her execution. Today, in fact. This book is part of a series of biographies for 7-12-year-old…
I barely looked at my computer screen this weekend. It was kind of nice. Anyway, that just gave me the chance to pop the top off one of my favorite articles that I wrote back when my readership was about…
This is the question that came to my mind as I was reading Carl Trueman’s booklet, The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. Particularly after this statement: Lacking a strong doctrinal center, evangelicalism’s coherence as a coalition of institutions and…
The Organized Heart, Staci Eastin (CruciformPress, 2011) I ordered this book for my church library with the intention of someday reading it myself. Someday. Sure, it sounds positive, especially the subtitle, A Woman’s Guide to Conquering Chaos. I knew that…
What we know about God, our theology, affects our Christian walk. This is certainly true regarding perseverance. Christians have many ideas about how we prevail to the end. One idea I saw a lot of growing up goes along with…
I’ve got a question for you guys. When it comes to baptism some people dunk, some people sprinkle. Some of us are paedobaptists, and some hold a credobaptist conviction. My question is for every situation. We just had an interesting…
There’s a plethora of blogs out there about blogging and writing. Since I’m having a book published and I have the whole blog thing going on, I try to read up on some of the tips offered. It seems that…
My days are packed with trivial drama. Solee hid the toothpaste because Haydn (and probably Zaidee too) never puts the cap on when he’s through. Between that and the over-squeezing, it gets all nasty (for extra effect Solanna says g-nasty).…
Over on Head, Heart, Hand, David Murray linked to an infograph featuring the 50 things technology has replaced. I busted out laughing when I read dialing *69 to find out who last called you. My kids wanted to know what…
I read an interesting article yesterday by Laura Hazard Owen claiming that although more people are buying their books online, there is a disconnect between where they are making their purchases and how they are discovering their books in the…
