So Your Kid Wants to Be a Writer?
Maybe your child realizes his aptitude in writing, or maybe he doesn’t–but you do. What are some things you can do to foster that talent and help open doors for him or her? 1. Fear the Lord. Probably the number one mistake I have seen in writers generally is a misjudgement that writing is either…
Read MoreRaising Readers: An Interview with Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs is Professor of Literature at Wheaton College, where he went to teach for two semesters and stayed for 28 years. Teaching is his joy, and writing is his particular gift, and God has placed him where he can speak to both the Christian and the secular academic world (see this interview with PBS,…
Read MoreA Dialogue on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
For a long time now, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been more than just mere mortal in our culture. His courageous work against oppression and his death at the hands of a racist madman have made him a symbol of the triumph of love over hatred and violence. I once interviewed an elderly black…
Read MoreBible Reading Challenge, Week Two (Jan. 15)
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Read MoreRR Podcast 10: Roger Lowther on Japanese Literature
This interview is part of our Japan: Literary Adventure. See Part One for an introduction as well as links to the books we talk about today. Yesterday I had the great pleasure of sitting down via Skype with Roger Lowther to ask him a few questions about Japanese literature. Roger and his wife Abi are…
Read MoreJapan: A Literary Adventure
Little One-Inch and Other Japanese Children’s Favorite Stories. Compiled by Florence Sakade. Illustrated by Yoshisuke Kurosaki. Tuttle Publishing. Tokyo, 2008. 50 pgs. Ages 4-10. The Tale of Genji (Penguin Classics). By Murasaki Shikibu. Edited and translated by Royall Tyler. Penguin Classics, 2006. 352 pgs. Ages 16-up. Today marks the beginning of another series for this…
Read MoreReading Challenge, Week One
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Read MoreOur 2012 Bible Reading Challenge: an Introduction
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Read MoreIntern-al Machinations
I’ll be honest, Janie and I didn’t really know what to expect when we decided to advertise for an intern. We hoped to rangle up a few hardworking young adults, preferably with something close to adequate writing skills. But we definitely didn’t suspect we would get the quantity and quality of applications we received over…
Read More2012 Reading Challenge and Bible Adventure
ONE STORY, ONE BIG ADVENTURE Judging by the success of Sally Lloyd Jones’ The Jesus Storybook Bible and R. C. Sproul’s new book, What’s in the Bible, as well as the many great and not-so-great knock-offs that have come along (i.e. The Story, a new kids’ Bible by Zondervan), there seems to be a new…
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