Monthly Archives: December 2016

Consolations

Looking for a Christmas present for a hard-to-buy-for Lutheran? Here it is: Johann Gerhard‘s Handbook of Consolations: For the Fears and Trials That Oppress Us in the Struggle with Death. Feel free to thank me in advance.

Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under As Theological Writers

Quotations on Words and Writing

A few quotations on words and writing to ponder from CS Lewis’s Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (page numbers from the linked version):

Continue reading

1 Comment

Filed under As Christian Writers, Writer's Life

Until tomorrow

Some mild medical drama prevented a usual post from me today, but thanks be to God our daughter isn’t in medical danger. 🙂

Leave a Comment

Filed under Uncategorized

Clever Thoughts

Sometimes I have clever thoughts or think up a neat metaphor, and I think, “This is my next project!” Maybe it will be, but maybe excitement clouds my judgment just a little.

Continue reading

2 Comments

Filed under As Christian Writers

Book-Loving Children

I aspire to raise book-loving children, and Advent is a lovely time to ponder good books for gifts and shared experiences. (Come, Lord Jesus, and, as we wait, let’s have some quality reading. :)) Still, there are a few less pleasant things about children obsessed with reading. Below is a little article about that.

Continue reading

4 Comments

Filed under Theological reflection, Uncategorized

Coffee with Cinnamon

My husband came back from a distant meeting one day and kept talking about the coffee there. Odd. Especially because he isn’t a fancy coffee drinker—neither of us are. Still, I emailed a friend to find out the secret and it’s simply to make your coffee with cinnamon.

Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under Writer's Life, Writing Tools

Type 1

You’re pardon me if I don’t tend to push blogs. Blogs are fine. I read ’em, though I read fewer than I used to. Still, I’d like to mention one today: Type 1 Confessional. It’s a new blog written by an author and LCMS pastor, Rev. Christopher Thoma, whose young daughter has recently been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes.

Continue reading

1 Comment

Filed under As Christian Writers

Starting New Projects

Why do I keep starting new projects rather than finishing old ones? Is it that the inspiration passes? Am I growing toward better approaches? Am I just too divided to focus?!

Continue reading

2 Comments

Filed under Writer Troubles, Writer's Life

The Great Church Crisis

I learned about another Lutheran author! Bethany Kilcrease is Associate Professor of History at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. According to a biographical blurb, “She has written and spoken on late-Victorian Anglicanism and Parliamentary politics, Protestant responses to the Boer war, anti-Catholicism in popular literature, and the role of Victorian Catholic apologists in popularizing science.” Her book, The Great Church Crisis and the End of English Erastianism, 1898-1906will be published and presumably released next Monday, December 12, 2016.

Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under Books to Purchase

A GoodReads Question

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to support you as writers and readers. I want to do what I can, in my little ways, to help Lutheran audiences know what’s available from Lutheran brothers and sisters. So, um, I have a GoodReads question for you.

Continue reading

2 Comments

Filed under Writer's Life