2017 is the 500th anniversary of Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses, so a plethora of books is being published about him, and I am blessed to be able to review several of them. This one is the most surprising and original. In The Unreformed Martin Luther, German journalist and theologian Andreas Malessa took an unusual approach. He […]
Reviews: Nonfiction
A Summer of Total Truth
This summer some dear ladies and I studied our way, together, through Nancy Pearcey’s Total Truth. Never have I seen so much enthusiasm about a book besides the Bible. One of the ladies was still reading the introduction when she decided to buy her agnostic father a copy. Another one related how every significant conversation […]
Review: Phonics for Parents by Leslie Perry
When Phonics for Parents showed up in the mail, I was instantly captivated. How much it would have helped me when I was trying to teach my children to read! I relearned phonics alongside them, using the teacher’s guides of our reading program, but that is a very inefficient way to do things. With this […]
A Homeschooling Essential—How Should We Then Live?
There are many good books and a few great ones but only a handful that should be read by all Christian homeschooling parents and teens. How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer is one of them. Beginning with the Romans, Schaeffer traces the history of Western thought right up to the present. Yes, even […]