We are all busy with all sorts of important and meaningful activities. I have been ill, unable to be busy in the usual ways, so one morning I watched the sun come up. It was amazing, much more amazing than the photos show. Colors glowing, slowly fading, and then shifting to echoes of themselves on […]
Devotional
Review: Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung
We all have a lot of decisions to make and, according to DeYoung, our evangelical culture does not promote wise decision-making. Part of the problem is that we have so many choices to make, but much of the time we are swayed by incorrect theology. This dramatically reduces our effectiveness, both in our personal life […]
Review: Luther by Those Who Knew Him by E. R. Charles
This devotional and encouraging book presents Luther and his ideas through the eyes of various members of a family that knew him. From Fritz, a monk who travelled to Rome with him, and Else, who struggled with not being religious enough because she was not a nun, to Eva, a nun who rejoiced to share […]
Review: Trunk of Scrolls by Darlene Bocek
While there are many novels about Reformation times, and many church history biographies throughout the ages, we have come across very little fiction about early church history and even less about the creeds. However, Darlene Bocek’s novel Trunk of Scrolls covers the time after 526 AD, after the council of Chalcedon and during the continuing […]
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 […]