Before Christmas I read a quote about feasts by GK Chesterton, and since it intrigued me, I tracked down the source. This involved my embar...

Fanny Price is one of the most boring heroines in literature.  She is always good, always correct, and it seems that her only faults lie in...

I read once that Tolkien wrote with the pessimism of the pagan poets [1].  They uphold honor in despair, dying well, the heroic quest at t...

Submission has come up a lot lately in my life.   I very much value authority and submission. But I don’t understand parts of it. Can you c...

CS Lewis wrote a book, That Hideous Strength .   It is one of my favorite novels.   Early in the story we meet a newly married woman named ...

“We sometimes hear the expression ‘the accident of sex,’ as though one’s being a man or a woman were a triviality.   It is very far from be...

Baptists: Thorough Reformers   by John Quincy Adams  is a short book demonstrating the impact on the Church and individual Christians when i...

I’m so behind, reporting to you on the books I’ve been reading!   Let me catch you up. Back in August, I read The Oath by Frank Peretti . ...

There is something blissful about finishing a good book.  It makes me want to stand by an open upstairs window in spring, or find a well-cus...

Flax flowers, tall and green crowned with sky-blue petals bend beneath the water falling on them, stooped double, dripping and dreary under ...

JRR Tolkien reported that he discovered his stories and the world of Middle Earth.  Bilbo’s complaint that Gandalf took him home from the Lo...

Once upon a time I read a book, kept hoping it would make sense at the end, and when the end was not the resolution for which I had hoped, d...

Your God is Too Safe by Mark Buchanan – A well-written book about Christian living. Dare to believe in a God who is not about rules, whos...

They loved to fight, valiant horsemen with swords and horns and arrows. But did they fight for her? Sitting home, left behind to wait on a...

This is a short book that summarizes some of Dr. Morris’ favorite topics, from Creation to early post-Flood history through end times and th...

I read a story last week: Return of the Guardian-King (Legends of the Guardian-King, Book 4) . Fourth and final of a vividly epic fantasy se...

Persuasion by Jane Austen (ok, so I re-read it, but loved it more the third time. The tale of a good, intelligent woman on the verge of...