Reading to my children is one of my great joys as a parent. Helping my children know, and love, and trust God is one of my great hopes as a Christian. Enter that sometimes vexing genre, the “Children’s Bible.” On many levels a children’s Bible is a great idea. Reading the Bible, uncut, to my five and […]
I Interview Laura Alary, “Make Room: A Child’s Guide to Lent and Easter”
This week I interview Laura Alary: a very dear friend, and a children’s author who has written a growing shelf of books. She takes both children and theology very seriously. My kids and I totally dig her books. Since her new kids’ book Make Room: A Child’s Guide to Lent and Easter is coming out just […]
Review: A Goodness I Cannot Explain
Imagine: You start having odd symptoms. Your doctor does a scan of your head. There is a tumor. Two treatments are possible: each has very serious risks. How do you decide? That is the situation Rev. Catherine Stewart faced a few years back. The journey that follows is the subject of her new book, A Goodness […]
Join my “Review Crew” and help launch my new Christmas Play!
I’m about to publish a Christmas play. (I call it “Christmas Play.” Pretty catchy, eh?) I am totally psyched about this project. It is designed for production in churches. It focuses squarely on the real Christmas story, weaving the biblical text of every Gospel passage about the coming of Christ into one story. I’d love to […]
Review of “Loaded Words: Freeing 12 Hard Bible Words From Their Baggage”
I met Heather Choate Davis and Leann Luchinger at a conference. We traded books and talked about historical theology. It was a great way to pass the time at an event where none of us fit in. At all. They told me about the book they were working on: Loaded Words: Freeing 12 Hard Bible Words […]