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How to Find Good Books, Part 2
“Is that a good book?” I asked my friend, picking up the hardback her son had set on our couch. “I don’t know,” she said, “I hope so. He reads so fast I have a hard time keeping up with him.” She said...
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Help for the Risks We’re Called to Take
by Harrison Watters It’s easy for me to admire people like Ernest Shackleton, John F. Kennedy, and Harriet Beecher Stowe for the way they overcame the odds and survived a near-death trip to the south...
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Sea dragons, a desperate quest, and a final battle carry Warden and the Wolf...
by Harrison and Zoe Watters Today the Warden and the Wolf King was released broadly. In Wolf King Andrew Peterson weaves a treacherous journey toward a glorious resolution of the Wingfeather Saga. The...
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Mei Fuh, a Treasure
In my recent search for living geography books I came across Little Pear, a short chapter book with whimsical illustrations about a boy growing up in a small Chinese village. Unlike dry textbooks,...
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See the Bible’s Big Story
It is no small feat to condense and summarize a 1,042 page book into just over 100 pages of artfully illustrated pages a child will want to sit on your lap and listen to you read aloud. Even more...
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On Farmer Boy and Becoming a Man
This week as our eight-year-old son was reading chapter 25 of Farmer Boy to me at the kitchen table, I was feeling a bit behind schedule. We had been doing this together on and off since last fall,...
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What we read this summer, or what you might want to read this fall
Free time for reading is a big part of what makes summer special in our family. This year we tried something new, setting a goal that we all work together to achieve. Inspired by a feature on books...
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What is a Christian Christmas?
QUESTION I’ve been a believer in Christ most of my life, and I know that “Jesus is the reason for the [Christmas] season,” but every year I feel like that head knowledge has a hard time getting to my...
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The May issue of Southern Seminary’s Towers magazine has a books focus with an emphasis on reading fiction for the purpose of enriching your spiritual imagination. I contributed an article for parents...
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Still Learning from Jane Austen
“Looking for my Darcy in a world full of Wickhams.” That phrase caught my eye from the front of my friend’s t-shirt. I chuckled. And I winced. As a fan of Pride and Prejudice, I got the meaning right...
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