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Book Review: The Drama of Atheist Humanism
by Henri De Lubac Henri de Lubac wrote most of...
27 January 2024 – The Holcombe Flag, the Tongue of the Woodpecker, the Squirrel’s Dirty Secret
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...
Book Review: A Lion to Guard Us
by Clyde Robert Bulla Amanda, about 10 I think, and her two younger siblings (8 and 6) were living in the...
To Know Christ Jesus
by FJ Sheed I read this book for Lent. It was a nearly perfect...
14 May 2023
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things...
Francis and Clare
by Helen Walker Homan This was an engaging biography on Saint Francis, though not so much on Saint Clare – she kind of pops up at the...
Adam of the Road
by Elizabeth Janet Gray In 13th century England, Adam, the...
29 April 2023
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things...
The Secret Garden
by Francis Hodgson Burnett What an excellent book! A bossy, spoiled girl named Mary is living in India until she is sent to Yorkshire...
Accused of Being a ‘Becky’ While Minding My Own Business
I pass by the local middle school on my run route every morning. Yesterday, I ran by as they were doing some sort of drill...
22 April 2023
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things...
Away Goes Sally
by Elizabeth Coatsworth Sally is a young orphan that lives with her aunts...