"We're all called to be saints..."

"We're all called to be saints..."
by Catherine Beebe This was a great biography. It read well and was really helped along by the fact that...
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...
I recently read through a discussion on social media about King David. The argument being made was the very notion that the church would hold King David in any kind of esteem proved just how anti-woman and patriarchal the church is. He used his...
I committed a sin that was particularly embarrassing for me. Whenever I commit a sin that is particularly embarrassing, I think of the early Christians who used to stand up and do their...
And 5 Others That Didn't Help by Benajmin Wiker A Book Review: If you are a busy parent with oatmeal brain but would still like to learn about the string of various philosophies that have gotten us to where we are today in the world, this is the book for you. Dr....
In the course of busy, we were interrupted by unexpected visitors. At the most, we tend to only find three or four Monarch caterpillars on our milkweed. This year, there were close to twenty. And a month early, to boot! They ate all but four branches of my milkweed...
Even as a child, I was fascinated with the concept of Haiku poetry. It seemed madness to me to take something as free-flowing and abandoned as writing from the heart and applying such Draconian restrictions to it as 5 syllables followed by 7 syllables and...
I won’t go into all the reasons as to why I’d stayed away. Suffice it to say, the Church had always been my sanctuary from the world and then, last year, the world invaded my sanctuary. And so, befuddled and incensed, I stayed away....
by John Eldredge I read these books for research for a book I'm planning on writing. For my purposes, these books served well, though I probably could have gotten away with just reading The Way of the Wild Heart. I needed ideas for male rites of passage and it was...
Born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, it was probably exciting to be made Pope based entirely on name signing time savings alone, nevermind getting to steward Jesus’s church.After being told there were not any shorter names, he decided on Paul and...
It is sometimes in the unexpected minutiae that we are surprised, once again, by the fact that God’s design works just fine without any human tinkering. I kept planning to start running again, but various obstacles kept coming up. Proving forever true the...