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Though Darkness Descend by Janet Joanou Weiner
Both Sarah Soon and Janet Joanou Weiner are writer friends of mine. Janet's first book came out this year---historical fiction set in France during the reign of Louis XIV. Though Darkness Descend focuses on the persecution of the French Hugenots, a fascinating and...
Cycles of Song
I love the rich history of sacred music in the Church. From early Gregorian chants to Bach to Jan Bender’s Creation, I’ve worshiped the Lord in musical praise. My college choir performed glorious songs from every era of Western Civilization. We were a rowdy herd who...
Loving Like Jesus in the Middle of 21st Century Leprosy
In Biblical times, if a person had been diagnosed with a skin disease such as leprosy, he or she was obligated to cover up and warn others when in public places. “Unclean! Unclean!” This was the directive from God regarding leprosy in the Old Testament. (Leviticus...
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh: The First of Twelve Book Reviews Planned for 2022
I've been wanting to be more faithful in writing book reviews, but...life happens. We'll see if I can meet my monthly goals in 2022--one blog post, one book review, one Do Not Delete post, and maybe a video clip of sign language. That last one takes even more time...
Christmas Truce
Mustard gas. Muddy trenches. No Man’s Land. In 1914, Britain, France, and Russia united to stop the greedy German kaiser. Surely, they’d have him running for home, his tail between his legs by Christmas. But Christmas found both armies weary, wet, and cold....
A Little Girl’s Amazing Season of Expectations
Advent. The season of expectations. When I was a little girl, the traditions of Advent filled me with all the emotions the season represents—Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. Waiting for Messiah, God with us. On the first Sunday of Advent, my mother would light one candle...
Still… I Have So Much Farther to Go
When we found our current church family twenty-five years ago, I had just sent my first child off to college. All of you moms out there who have reached this milestone understand how fragile I felt. Excited for him. Satisfied that he was ready to fly from the nest....
The Fifty-Year-Old Question For My Deaf Sister
How does my sister feel when she’s left out of conversations in the hearing world? Lost? Angry? Resigned?
How does my sister feel when she’s left out of conversations in the hearing world? Lost? Angry? Resigned?She agreed to an interview.
Perseverance: Beauty in the Midst of Ugly
Our fourteen-hour trip from Florida to Indiana had expanded to almost eighteen hours. Despite an overnight break at a hotel, the drive through Georgia with its clogged highways, road work, and multiple fender-benders had exhausted us. But we’d persevered. Once the...
He Had A Dream…Can We Revive It?
At the not-yet-ripe age of seven, I was vaguely aware of the civil rights tensions in our nation. My parents never discussed the news in front of three small children, so information from the world outside our home drifted across my vision through the daily paper or...
Before I Knew You by Beth Steury
After a series of bad choices rocked his world, seventeen-year-old Preston charts a new course as far from his ladies’ man ways as he can get. He distances himself from the dating scene and avoids his party-loving friends—the things that once dominated his life. Then...
From Christmas to the Resurrection: My Quirky Tradition
While I love the Advent season and lighting candles leading up to the birth of Jesus and celebrating that Birth with family, I also love the Lenten season leading up to the Resurrection of Jesus in a much different way. Advent is the season of expectation. It’s...
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