No Longers Strangers? by Javed Masih
If you want the salutary facts – necessarily subjective but certainly typical – about what a refugee family experiences after…
100+ Beautiful Antique Books for Sale
I don’t know if I ever met my illustrious and rather enigmatic great uncle Stanley Le Rossignol. My mother often…
Penhaligon’s Gift by Terri Nixon
Although this is a continuation of the complex relationships we have discovered in the earlier books of the series, it…
The Making of Us by Sheridan Voysey
This is no pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, eight-days-to-Christian-maturity workbook! It doesn’t offer much in the way of answers. Rather, many soul-searching questions.
These kids I like, who climate strike!
#ClimateStrike #Zürich Was that a nod from heaven that it rained … and rained in Zürich yesterday? It didn’t discourage…
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
This is one of the best of Dickens’ works, in my opinion. True, it starts off heavy and bleak, but…
Hate your life! – A Bible Reflection
A large crowd was following Jesus. He turned around and said to them, “If you want to be my disciple,…
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Our kids were already a bit old for the Harry Potter books when they emerged in 1997. At that time…
Build a new world!
Do you know Avaaz? Avaaz – meaning “voice” in several European, Middle Eastern and Asian languages – is a global…
Esther and Athaliah, two plays adapted from those of Jean Racine by Richard Bunning
As a tame introduction to the work of Jean Racine, this adaptation is most helpful, presenting the plays in abridged…
The Unquiet Dawn by Terri Nixon
Terri Nixon succeeds in combining the historic circumstances of village life in mid-seventeenth century Cornwall – blacksmiths, millers, peasants and…
That Man Jesus by Martin Down
Did you know that Jesus experienced sexual temptation? See below. Down relates Jesus’s life chronologically, including almost all the details…