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Children’s Stories: “Duck & Goose”
[This is part three in a series on our favorite children’s stories and is being cross-posted on my new parenting blog. Please visit the first post for instructions!] Shortly after my daughter was born, her bilirubin level spiked and we had to take her into the hospital. Our brave girl was taken through the ER up to…
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Children’s Stories: “Itsy Mitsy Runs Away”
[This is part one in a series on our favorite children’s stories. Please visit the first post for instructions!] My current favorite children’s story is Itsy Mitsy Runs Away written and illustrated by Elanna Allen. It was just published in June, and I was drawn to it because of its imaginative cover and fanciful title. Boy, did I…
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Section 1: Questing—Seeking and Finding
This is the first of a three-part series covering David Rudel’s Who Really Goes To Hell?—The Gospel You’ve Never Heard. Rudel looks at how Scripture (The Bible) and our understanding of GOD’s purpose and of Jesus (The Gospel) intersect and where they diverge. My introduction can be found here. We often take it as a…
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The Gospel You’ve Never Heard
I’ve just started reading Who Really Goes to Hell–The Gospel You’ve Never Heard: What a Protestant Bible written by Jews says about God’s work through Christ by David I. Rudel. An intriguing title in itself but the caption underneath it made me all the more interested: “(A book for those in the church and those…
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Changing Fortunes
I love all kinds of Asian food. Chinese, Thai, Japanese: it’s all good. I love it. You know what happens to me after I’ve had some? I want more. I easily could eat it for lunch every other day and not get sick of it. Last week, I went to a Chinese restaurant. Actually, let’s…
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A People’s History it is
In Diana Butler Bass’s new book, the author tackles a worthy endeavor–placing the small voices that helped direct the history of the church into their proper and influential context–is an important and worthy practice for our church. The deft way with which Butler Bass navigates this potentially divisive approach makes this one of the most…