Sometime ago, I learnt to distinguish between devotional times and devotional living. The writer who made this clear to me was Sally Clarkson, homeschooling mother , writer and women’s groups’ speaker. She wrote that we are to ever live before God- being conscious of His presence as we go about our daily activities of working, [...]
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Should women wear pants or dresses?
I wish that someone would buy this book for me. I read McMinn’s “Growing Strong Daughters” some time back and gained a new perspective on how we can condition our daughters to the ways of the world when we could be nurturing them to be the unique strong individuals that God has created them to [...]
Growing Strong Daughters
I am reading a wonderful book right now about mothers and daughters by Lisa Graham McMinn. The writer looks at mothering from a different angle than does Sally Clarkson in her parenting books ( Seasons of a Mother’s Heart, The Mission of Motherhood). I find McMinn’s book liberating and challenging and wish I had found [...]
Joy’s Book Review
Joy typed this review of a book she’d read (“The Tinker’s Daughter” by Wendy Lawton). Btw, Fara is Arabic for “joy”. “My name is Fara. I read about a book titled Mary Bunyan. It’s about Mary, a blind girl, who refuses help from her family and friends. She does not change until she realizes that [...]
“Disappearance of Childhood”:Mini-review
“The Disappearance of Childhood” by Neil Postman. Vintage Press. 1982. This is one pessimistic book. Like most pessimistic books, it’s also a thought provoking one. I read Elkind’s “The Hurried Child†some years ago and it spurred me to make some decisions about the way we’d raise (and not raise) our kids. Writing from the [...]