Real World Bible Study

Here’s something true.  This is a Bible study blog.  And Christians should read the Bible.  But what else should we read?  The truth is that entertainment is an important part of our lives.  It’s part of how we rest and play (things that God does too!).  Sure, entertainment done wrong can hijack our lives and our sleep, or can gradually…
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Dear Little Sister, (You know who you are.  And I’ll have to send you the link to this post, because I know you won’t see it otherwise!). Last week I read a book that was hard to read.  Not, like, technically difficult, but challenging.  It didn’t make me cry then, but it might now.  It was a book about cancer,…
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According to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), “approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. (46.6 million) experiences mental illness in a given year.” That’s a staggering statistic (and one I’ve been a part of), especially for something we don’t talk about all that much.  And there are more like it.  Mental illness affects you or someone you know…
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Can I just say that Chautona Havig has a special gift? It seems like every book she writes has the funniest premise you could think of.  Thirty Days Hath… is no exception. Adric’s friends have decided that it’s time for him to get married. Actually, he wants to get married at some point, too. But he just doesn’t have time…
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No little girl thinks “I want to be a prostitute when I grow up.”  We’d rather save the world. So how is it that between reading Love’s Rescue and watching a high school production of Les Miserables in the last two weeks, I “met” so many French prostitutes?  Both stories exposed the awful circumstances that bring women into that “profession.”  And…
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