Poetry: Stevenson – The Land of Storybooks

Home I return across the sea, And go to bed with backward looks At my dear land of Story-books.

Review: The Prince and the Pauper

I have been going through my classics shelves and reading all the books I missed as a child. I actually began reading this one to my children, but I was so intrigued by the story and so impatient for times between naps or chores that I finished it on my own. I will have to …

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Review: Defending Boyhood

Esolen's book states most simply and directly that it is good for boys to be boys that we might raise them into men.

Children’s Church Part 5 – A Closing Story

Written in January 2021 In the hours after my daughter’s birth, I saw a little blessing from God. Not only did I get to hold my daughter, but I was given a little comfort knowing that my daughter knew me and trusted me. She was being held by someone in the room and started crying. …

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Children’s Church Part 4 – Teach Them as You Walk

 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when …

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