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NewsSaturday Selections – Sept 5, 2026
Lost and Found with Running Home Another toe-tapper, this one based on Psalm 51. A quick guide for social media in marriage The opening story…
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ParentingGive your kids a super power
I’ve been thinking lately that books are incredible. They are full of adventures and worlds and characters that shape us in profound ways. They make…
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EducationLife skills every high school graduate needs to know
What skills should every child learn? Schools have traditionally focused on the 3 R’s of education: reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmatic. (All right, whoever came up…
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EntertainmentYou might relate to Mary Bennet, but you’re not supposed to imitate her
Mary Bennet gets a lot of good press. In Pride and Prejudice, she is one of the heroine Elizabeth Bennet’s three younger sisters, and she’s…
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AssortedMy journey with books
It has been a long journey of books for me. I grew up with books, and as a child read from The Book of Knowledge…
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Book ReviewsJames Herriot’s Treasury for Children
by James Herriot 260 pages / 1992 & 2104 Rating: Good/Great/GIFT James Herriot is best known for a series of semi-autobiographical books he wrote about…
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Book ReviewsBruno the Bear
by W.G. Van de Hulst 47 pages / 1978 & 2014 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Little Rosie is sick so Mother takes her off to bed. But…
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Recent ArticlesHow to stop taking the Bible for granted
“Scripture has never been easier to obtain, and Scripture has never been more difficult to absorb.” Let that sink in for a minute. I read…
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Book lists50 “Great Books”
What are the “Great Books”? There is no one list, but the term is meant to describe a compilation of classics from Western Literature. Some…
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Entertainment“What can I do anyways?”
You can’t beat something with nothing (as Eph. 4:28, Matt. 12:30, and Matt. 12:43-45 make clear). That means if you want to do RP’s 10-day…
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InternetWill AI replace reading?
Many new technologies are sold with the promise of freeing people from menial tasks. Dishwashers, dryers, tractors, and word processors are just a few of…
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Christian educationHelping students overcome a fear of failure
Among the most common mental attitudes hindering the pursuit of a genuine education by young people is fear of failure. When the focus of the…
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Articles – BooksA plea to read
**** In the title I promised you a story. Actually that was mainly to draw you in. I figured stories sell more magazines. But it’s…
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In a NutshellTidbits – January 2022
On books “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx When…
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Book lists100+ read-aloud suggestions…
I’ve been reading out loud to my girls since they were born, and now that they are older we’re still reading, ending each day with…
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Adult non-fiction3 ways of confronting the problem of diminishing attention spans through the Great Books
How many books do you finish? How many blog posts do you really read? I am guessing that you, like me, are busy and are…
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Articles – BooksHow to get our boys to read
In a 2010 Wall Street Journal article, Thomas Spence argues that the way some “experts” were trying to encourage boys to read was all wrong….
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ParentingOn reading together
It used to be, a generation and a half or so ago, that reading out loud was family entertainment. My own childhood memories – although…
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Articles – BooksRaising readers: the surprising power of reading aloud
Of all the skills our children need to master, reading is at the top of the list. Children who read fluently do well in school,…