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Are Children’s Books Really Just for Children? (opens the original)
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“I also really like children’s books,” she said to me, glancing around, “though I know they don’t really count.”I forget exactly when, where, and with whom that conversation happened, but it’s a sentiment I hear often. Children’s books “don’t count” as Reading once you are A Grown-Up. Serious books like War and Peace count, sure, but not Johnny Tremain. That might have been a good read in the third grade but we are Adults now! As a reader in her 30s who has, quite frankly, never grown out of rea
Two Unexpected Theology and Art Books (opens the original)
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Dear readers,I’m so pleased to introduce to you! She’s a fellow doctoral student at the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts with me, studying the art and faith of Lilias Trotter. You can find her at , and she’s also written for Plough and . Her work as an art historian attending to divine encounters has inspired me, while her friendship has been a godsend.
A Summer Miscellany (opens the original)
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The Scottish summer is different from what my American self is accustomed to. Cool days with delectably long hours of sunlight, constant sea breezes, a rainbow of flowers. It’s what I never thought summer could be, pleasing to the senses and a delight to inhabit.“And God is as willing to save man as he is powerful and wise; for Christ himself…has taught us to do good in return for evil. Here we can see that he is himself this love and acts towards us as he teaches us to do; for he wants us to be
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