Our family loves books. By reading we learn about God, ourselves, and the world. We learn wisdom: how to live well in this world, and what ‘live’ and ‘well’ and ‘world’ mean. We go places we could never go on our own and learn from other people’s hard work and hard-won experience. And we have […]
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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 […]
Fundamentals of Literature: A Study Guide
Although there are many ways of studying literature in the homeschool, all of them should, to some extent, involve discussions of fundamental concepts such as conflict, character, theme, structure, point of view, and moral tone. Whether one uses a textbook, reads novels, stories, and poems, or focuses on writing, understanding these fundamentals is essential to […]
Review: Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins
I wrote and scheduled this review a while ago. Since then another one of my children has moved out. Growing up and becoming independent are good and necessary things, but even under the most ideal circumstances they cause turmoil for us mothers. And when are circumstances ever ideal in this broken world? So I reread […]