by: Michael Barber There are a lot of misconceptions about what it means to be saved. Michael Barber takes the reader...
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Book Review: The Common Man
by GK Chesterton This book is a collection of about 44 essays on subjects ranging from the common man to necromancy to...
Perhaps Sliced Bread Isn’t the Best Thing
“It’s the best thing since sliced...
Saint Dominic and the Rosary
by Catherine Beebe This was a great biography. It read well and was really helped along by the fact that Saint Dominic had a very fascinating life. He was born to older parents after his other brothers and sisters were grown-up and moved out. He knew he...
20 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 up to answer the various questions that arise. For instance, the children found that one of the chickens had laid an egg...
To Know Christ Jesus
by FJ Sheed I read this book for Lent. It was a nearly perfect Lent book. It even had 45 chapters so you could read one per day and be finished by Holy Week....
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 up to answer the various questions that arise. For instance, the children found that one of the chickens had laid an egg...
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 beginning of the book for a minute and then again at the end. Saint Francis, whose father was a successful merchant, came...
Adam of the Road
by Elizabeth Janet Gray In 13th century England, Adam, the son of Roger the minstrel, is ready to live life on the road with his father so that one day, he too can become a...
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 up to answer the various questions that arise. For instance, the children found that one of the chickens had laid an egg...
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 England to live with her very rich uncle in his mansion when her parents die in an epidemic. The whole place...
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 outside. Several of the middle school males took a break from telling each other doody jokes and giving each other dutch...