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Reviews: Nonfiction

Review: Tyndale by David Teems

You may know the story of Tyndale, a man consumed by the goal to translate the Bible so every English plough boy could read it, a man hunted as a heretic and eventually martyred for his work.  Tyndale by David Teems does not focus on this story, but rather tells the tale of his work, […]

Review: The Money Saving Mom’s Budget Audio Book

One of the first homeschooling talks I listened to pointed out an interesting fact:  most homeschooling moms can manage the actual homeschooling quite well.  What leads to homeschool stress and burn out is not the actual homeschooling itself but all the other things moms deal with, including financial pressure. Thus The Money $aving Mom’s Budget […]

Review: Three Men Came to Heidelberg and Glorious Heretic

The Reformation of the 16th century produced many great documents, including the beloved Heidelberg Catechism and the thorough Belgic Confession.  For their 400th anniversaries, about 50 years ago, Thea B. Van Halsema wrote the stories of how these two influential documents were written. Three Men Came to Heidelberg tells the story of the Heidelberg Catechism. […]

Review: The Wise Woman’s Guide to Blessing her Husband’s Vision

I’ll never forget a new acquaintance telling me bitterly that she had wanted her family to go into missions, ‘but Ed here didn’t want to.’  Husband Ed was sitting right there, resigned to being criticized in front of his children and people he had barely met.  He was a godly man, but certainly not a respected […]

Review: Folks This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin

Modern North American life ‘just ain’t normal’ according to farmer and writer Joel Salatin.  Why not?  It feels normal to most of us. Salatin suggests that we are just too out of tune with the way things have been, could be, and should be.  We don’t even know the way things should be for the […]