Bible 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…
Read MoreTop 5 Posts of 2011
It’s been an exciting year. We launched Redeemedreader back in February of 2011, and since then we’ve been sprinting to keep up. So most of this week, Janie and I are convalescencing. In my case, I’m visiting with family and trying not to fall asleep on the couch. Not a bad way to spend a…
Read MoreDystopian Download
Yesterday on our site, we offered a review of both book and movie, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. But of course, it’s not the first time Janie and I have written about dark fiction that appeals to teenagers. There is my review of A Clockwork Orange as part of my autobiography-in-books series, Janie’s post…
Read MoreA Poem for Christmas Morning
ADVENT II The year the tree fell: Little bits of brittle angels all over the floor, bent up boxes, and torn paper. I cut myself a dozen times on sparkly slivers of broken balls. * * * The year the tree falls: No pastoral night nativities No gentle carpenter hung on boards. This…
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