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The Creation, the Fall and the Promise
The Creation, the Fall and the Promise, written by Lutheran author Joshua Radke and illustrated by Lutheran artist Kelly Schumacher, is what all Lutheran coffee tables should hold from now on. The...
View ArticleWestern Civilization
Sometimes all I want in the world is to boil down western civilization so I can give every bit of it to my children. And then I want to add in awesome parts from other parts of the world, too. What...
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A Valentine’s Day to Remember
Last December I was excited to share a Lutheran author I’d found: Aretta Gordish. You can read that post here. Well, today I’m doubly happy to report that just at the end of January, she published...
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Misc.
I’ve been reading Post-Christian obsessively and then, today, all of a sudden I couldn’t find it! I hate it when that happens! And when I say obsessively, I mean it. I actually started the book over...
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Original 14th century English
Ok. This is too cool not to pass along: there is now an app which reads you Chaucer out loud in original 14th century English! Here is the article, which you should read. The bottom has links to...
View ArticleConnections
I love connections. Themes. Hints and foreshadows. The difficulty, however, is that in religious writing how do you know what is really a connection and not a figment of an over-eager imagination? I...
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WELS Women Writers Conference
I am thrilled to (learn and therefore) announce that there will be a WELS Women Writers’ Conferences April 24–25, 2020. Yay! Here is the official WELS announcement about it. WELS Women’s Ministry is...
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The Year of the Warrior
Today I review the great Lutheran author Lars Walker and his first two books (combined) in his series, The Saga of Erling Skjalgsson: The Year of the Warrior. Review of The Year of the Warrior First...
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Blood and Judgment
I’ll say this. Once I start reading Lutheran author Lars Walker, it’s hard to stop! But I did take a break from his Erling Skalgsson series. (Mostly because I need to look up the order again.) Today’s...
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Internet Issues
I’m still here. Over the weekend, when I often try to plot out posts for the week, our small town was out of Internet. Now, generally I try to avoid paranoid thinking, trying to cultivate a better...
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West Oversea
I swear that this is a blog for writers and not just book reviews. Time’s just been short and books about vikings so enticing. So today’s post is, once again, on a Lars Walker book, the next in the...
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Memorize the Athanasian Creed
I’d like to borrow a brilliant idea from Sarah Gulseth and the Facebook/ Podcast The Lutheran Ladies Lounge. You do not need to be a lady, however, to join us and memorize the Athanasian Creed! I feel...
View ArticleQuick Question
Ok, friends. Can any of you help me figure out which hymnal the video below is from? It’s the Athanasian Creed pointed and with chanting tones. The post Quick Question appeared first on Meet, Write,...
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Cruelest quote
I’m going to go ahead and take a quote out of context to share it with you. It’s just two sentences from Lars Walker‘s Hailstone Mountain: Book 4 of the Saga of Erling Skjalgsson. I don’t have time to...
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2020 Lenten Resources
Today I have a few things to note for you, including a sale and 2020 Lenten resources. I’m afraid it won’t be as thorough as sometimes, as my sweet-hearted, sporty eleven-year-old dislocated her knee...
View ArticlePerspective to Connect
One of the things I really value as a writer is perspective. To write, one needs perspective broad and narrow, principled and specific. But rather than detaching and decompartmentalizing everything,...
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When it rains, it pours
Sometimes, when it rains, it pours. We’re all ok, but my family’s having a rough week! Maybe today can be a good day to remember one another in prayer and share a “Lord, have mercy!” moment....
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Pastor Bedtime
Photo by Brian C from FreeImages I love puns. I can’t help it. Well, Aaron Nielsen, on Facebook posted a funny one with an idea attached and I can’t help but like them both: a title & idea for a...
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Hailstone Mountain
Today’s post is a review of Lutheran author Lars Walker‘s Book 4 of the Erling Skajalgsson Saga, Hailstone Mountain. Now that I’ve read them all, I wanted a few days to digest them. I still think I...
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The Elder King
In today’s post, I review Book 5 of the Saga of Erling Skjalgsson: The Elder King by Lutheran author extraordinaire Lars Walker. The Elder King Review Once again Lars Walker delivers an eye-opening...
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