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My Not-so-ordinary WorldHistory in a GravestoneMay 18, 2012
In a grove at the bottom of the hill at the end of the subdivision where my daughter lives, there is a cemetery. I don’t know how many people even know it’s there. The way is overgrown with weeds (and full of ticks.) My daughter’s neighbor discovered it when her dog got away from her (more…)
Looking at History with Christian EyesMay 11, 2012
A natural extension of my Africa picture book collection has been picture books that show African-American culture, especial religious life. (This passion has no doubt been encouraged by our relationships with brothers and sisters at Solid Word Bible Church in Indianapolis.) Besides picking up Under the Baobab Tree at Calvin College’s Festival of Faith and Writing last month, I bought The Beatitutdes by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Tim Ladwig.
I first met Tim Ladwig at (more…) Africa in a Child's EyesMay 4, 2012
I brought home several new books from Calvin College’s Festival of Faith and Writing a couple weeks ago. I have collected beautiful picture books since I worked in a Logos Bookstore children’s department when I was first married, long before my own kids. My children remember the antique glass cupboard with books that we (more…)
Stretching my Reading ListApril 27, 2012
When I told told you I was going to Calvin College’s Festival of Faith and Writing, I had no pictures. Now I have lots. It's a readers conference rather than a writers conference although there are lots of writers there. I participated in a workshop on short-story writing and got a good start thinking through a new project. But the emphasis is less (more…)
Hope and Hard WorkApril 20, 2012
My son-in-law told me, “The easiest way to qualify is to get old.” That’s because the qualifying time goes up with age. Dan didn’t wait to get old. He did the distance in less than three hours at Beaver Island earlier this year and promptly went on to do (more…) Old NewsApril 13, 2012
Technology has its down side (witness all the ads for Viagra and body-part enlargers that show up in my spam box) but it really has some great stuff too. Recently I have been enjoying Inter-Varsity Press’s Quiet Time Study page. It works its way through the Bible over a couple years with questions (more…)
No More We Doubt Thee!April 8, 2012
I have been working on a short story about the two disciples on the road to Emmaus on that long ago Easter afternoon, immersing myself in their grief, trying to imagine its transformation into joy as they recognized Jesus. For that reason verse two of this hymn struck me especially. Verse three makes me think of Thomas. Maybe I need to write another story. (My taste in music (more…) The Trysting PlaceApril 6, 2012
My sister mentioned #3 and #7 in InterVarsity's Hymns , which we used in family worship growing up. She didn’t bother to (more…) Hungry for JusticeMarch 30, 2012
I started crying in the reaping scene, and nearly lost it in the riots. I think I got my cardio-vascular workout from the pounding of my heart through the whole thing. My husband doesn’t want to see the rest of the series when it comes out; it made him too angry—angry at injustice, angry at frivolous disregard for another person’s pain, angry at sin.
I’m talking about The Hunger Games. Don’t let the lines of teenagers (more…) For All the SaintsMarch 23, 2012
I woke this morning with this hymn going through my head. It’s an old favorite going back to the summer at Cedar Campus in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan when I met my husband. Cedar Campus is an InterVarsity Christian Fellowship training camp and mostly we sang from the organization’s Hymns, a collection I knew so well from (more…)
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