Last week we looked at some YA titles that celebrated the “coming out” of gay and lesbian characters.  “Young Adult” has traditionally been the accepted ...

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield.  Crown and Covenant, 2012.  154 pgs. An Anomaly In the 1990's, Rosaria Butterfield was ...

On Friday I wrote about the treatment of homosexuality in youth literature, a topic I’m not quite done with.  We notice more novels that normalize ...

It feels wrong to merely skip over Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, especially with President Obama's inauguration today, and yet with Black History month coming ...

“We will triumph with our tongues.  We own our lips—who is our master?” Psalm 12:4 We live in an age where reality can be easily ...

Into the Spotlight Sixteen-year-old Gabrielle Douglas's jaw-dropping performance in the women's all-around gymnastics competition, just edging out her closest Russian competitor to win gold, was ...

My sister, who serves at a docent at a prisoner-of-war museum in Texas, says that her most eager listeners are pre-teen and teenage boys.  When ...

Technically it's mid-January, I know.  But we're finally running again on all cylinders after the holidays--or at least I am!  After traveling and dealing with ...

THE CHURCH: On to Glory! This is our last part of the yearly study!  For those of you who make it this far, congratulations, and ...

Of all four-legged mammals, I estimate that dogs get the most exposure in fiction, with horses and mice tying for second and cats a distant ...

Jeff Kinney currently sits at the top of a $550 million empire, and it all started with a web comic.  When Kinney’s ambition to write ...

With four great finalists to choose from, I hope you guys got a lot of entertainment value out of this contest.  It was very close, ...