Since talking about friendship is something we’ve been talking a lot about around our house, talking about this new book fits my thinking lately. Christine Hoover’s Messy Beautiful Friendship is available today! Several months ago, I read a few blog posts she had written. I liked what she had to say about the Bible and […]

Everyone’s talking about refugees these days. I’m not sure people are doing anything differently, but since it’s a part of the discussion, I wanted to share a short list of children’s novels about refugees that I have read and enjoyed. Most I have shared with my children, and they have been received well. Several of […]

One of the books I read from my parents’ library while I was in California was Dream Big, a biography of an influential Christian educator named Henrietta Mears. Mears was a single woman who organized and led a large Sunday school program in California during the thirties and forties. She saw the need for teachers […]