When Lindsey O’Connor entered the hospital for the birth of her fifth baby, she fully expected to walk out in a few days with her baby in her arms. Instead, she hemorrhaged terribly and spent the next 47 days in a medically-induced coma. This is the story of her long, long awakening—all the physical, emotional, […]
52 Books in 52 Weeks
Review: An Untamed Heart by Lauraine Snelling
Although she wants to be a midwife, headstrong Ingeborg Strand, twenty years old in 1878, has always been happiest at the high mountain seter each summer, away from her mother’s criticism. There she and her younger siblings and relations grow livestock and make cheese for their families the whole glorious summer long. Ingeborg teaches the […]
Review: The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill
Every once in a while, a wonderful children’s book presents an educational philosophy and becomes a treat for both children and their parents. Louisa May Alcott wrote several books like this (Jack and Jill, Jo’s Boys, Little Men), Dorothy Canfield Fisher gave us Understood Betsy, and now Kirkpatrick Hill presents her ideas in the delightful […]
Review: Reading with Purpose by Nancy Wilson
Would you encourage your teen to hang out, unsupervised, with some of the most charming, persuasive, and articulate non-Christians in the world? That is what’s happening when they read literature without guidance. Obviously, this can have devastating effects. So, what is a Christian homeschooling parent to do? We must understand both the ideas and the […]
Review: Splitting Harriet by Tamara Leigh
This summer I picked up an unlikely read, Splitting Harriet by Tamara Leigh. And I’m very glad I did. Harri Bisset, first a preacher’s kid, then a rebel, put her bad lifestyle behind her eight years ago after a showdown in a biker’s bar. She turned to God, and now fights her nicotine cravings with […]