Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
This is not your typical Amish romance novel. Hooray! In Beside Still Waters, Tricia Goyer looks beyond the usual Amish-story stereotypes. Rather than contrasting the Amish and Englischer differences, with the Amish being “good” and the Englischers being “bad”, it shows the likenesses shared by the two Christian communities. I [...]
Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? If it is a fast, how can it possibly be delicious? Well, this fast isn’t about going hungry. It’s about eating the way Daniel ate in the Bible. I took the photo above at my own dining room table. This is what Amoeba and [...]
Below you will find my response to Kay’s post on prejudice: Mark Twain’s “N-Word”. You might what to visit Kay’s blog to read the post and comments so you will have context for my “speech”. ~*~ I have taught with the original text (Tom Sawyer) in my 5th grade classroom [...]
On the day she was born, Miranda’s mama started dreaming about the day her daughter would walk down the isle in the billowing white wedding gown.  Miranda’s mama never had a wedding. She got married in a Vegas wedding chapel just a couple months before Miranda was born. Miranda is [...]
My Thoughts: I haven’t finished reading How to Be Perfect: One Church’s Audacious Experiment In Living the Old Testament Book of Leviticus. It gives to cause to pause, wonder, contemplate and reread. If you’ve ever had trouble reading Leviticus and wonder what in the heck all that boring gobbledygook is [...]