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German Family Persecuted for Homeschooling

Please pray for the Wunderlich family whose children have been taken away because they homeschool. The HSLDA article begins: At 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 29, 2013, in what has been called a “brutal and vicious act,” a team of 20 social workers, police officers, and special agents stormed a homeschooling family’s residence near Darmstadt, […]

Review: Three Decades of Fertility from Visionary Womanhood

As a mom of five, with five siblings, dozens of nieces and nephews, and a huge number of other relatives, I’m used to large families.  But many women who, with their husbands, have become convinced that large families are not to be avoided, do not have the background and support that we do.  This book […]

Wordless Wednesday: Current Projects

  Since we may have frost in our little valley tomorrow night, and since our garden tomatoes and peppers are late, we bought 75 lbs of tomatoes and half a bushel of peppers.  They are now in the freezer, and we are tired but happy.

Review: The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good by Greer and Haggard

Doing good is good, right?  Then why is it that only one in three biblical leaders finished well, without abusing power or harming themselves or others?  And the numbers are worse today. Leader of a Christian microfinance company, Peter Greer wrote this book to help those who serve, especially leaders, see the dangers that come […]

Holiday Highlights

In my life these weeks… From watching a wild fawn nurse to being with family, from sewing a dress for Miss 10 to making applesauce, life has been full this past month.  We visited family and friends, we camped, we drove more than 6000 km (~2/3 of that in the rocky, forested Canadian Shield), and […]