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Reviews: Nonfiction

Notes on The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages by Shaunti Feldhahn

A few weeks ago we celebrated our 25th anniversary.  Through health and sickness, riches and poverty, joy and heartbreak, God has been with us, and we have learned much about marriage. But even for us there are still helpful and encouraging ideas in Shaunti Feldhahn’s book The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages:  The Little […]

Review: A Godward Heart by John Piper

Sometimes short meditations are easier to absorb than whole books.  This may be because it is easier to evaluate and determine a life response to a few paragraphs than to a whole book. A Godward Heart by John Piper is a book of 50 of such meditations covering a wide range of topics from “This […]

Review: Truth Matters: Confident Faith in a Confusing World

Truth matters.  What you believe about the ultimate questions of life, death, God, and our purpose makes all the difference in the world… and not only for today. But what is truth, and how can we know it?  Long ago Satan confused Eve with his half-truth, and he has been confusing people ever since.  Nowadays, […]

Review: Candle Bible Handbook

Any person, Christian or not, who aims to understand Western literature, art, thought, and science must have a working knowledge of the Bible.   After all, it is the most read and most influential book in Western culture over the last two millennia.  In terms of homeschooling, this means that the Bible should be a foundational […]

Review: Henry Hudson by Ronald Syme

What a moving biography Syme has written of the tragic explorer Henry Hudson!  This story for middle school children, the best I have read about Hudson, is unusual for this age range.  Very few children’s biographies attempt to present a person’s complex character in the way Syme did in this book.  For that reason, Henry […]