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Whens and Wheres, According to Stephen Lawhead (CSFF Tour, Day 3)
A word of explanation is in order: you may have noticed that “Day 2” of this tour got skipped (for the first time ever, I’d like to point out). The sad fact is that my copy of the book arrived really, really late, and by the time it got here, it collided head-on with an…
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CSFF Tour: The Bone House (Day 1)
The Christian Science Fiction & Fantasy Blog Tour is touring again! This month the featured title is The Bone House, Book 2 of the Bright Empires series. My review of the first book, The Skin Map, can be found here. Bright Empires is a many-layered story exploring the idea of “ley travel,” a way of…
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A Celtic Prayer: The Complete Production
If you wished you could see what we were doing in the Maritimes … Now you can! Soli Deo Gloria Ballet toured our twenty-minute piece “A Celtic Prayer” in New Brunswick, Novia Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Our hosts in New Minas, Nova Scotia, filmed it and posted it on YouTube. (I’m the tall one…
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There’s More
written after an airplane ride, summer 2010 … I gazed out the airplane window at the storm gathering over the Arizona desert. Night was falling, and beneath the clouds, city lights shone out of the darkness. Above, the clouds were shining with amber sunlight. Lightning arced through the clouds, forking out over the city; it…
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The Monster in the Hollows: A Review (Day 3)
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness is a whimsical adventure tale, funny, scary, inhabited by Fangs of Dang, crazy sock men, and genuine recipes for maggotloaf. North! Or Be Eaten, Book 2 of The Wingfeather Saga, is the classic journey story: a book of creatures, encounters, fascinating locales, and of course, coming…
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The Wingfeather Saga: A Briefish Overview (Day 2)
A boy who longs for freedom and adventure, who lives under an oppressive regime, who does not truly know who he is. A journey to strange lands full of strange creatures, one that is simultaneously a journey to discover the past and to shape the future. Beauty, tragedy, and wonder. Coming of age. Dragons, mysterious…
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CSFF Tour: The Monster in the Hollows (Day 1)
I promise that by Wednesday, I will actually write a review of The Monster in the Hollows. Getting this far has been a journey, let me tell you. First, there have been other Wingfeather Saga tours, which I always missed. I’m not sure why, but I did. Then there were all the glowing reviews, the…
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The Closet
Posting something a bit different today :). I’m not sure if this qualifies as poetry, but here you go: The Closet Rachel Starr Thomson Written at the Magnificat Retreat in Guelph, February 12, 2011 Here I sit In my deep dark closet Where the plaster peels And reveals Wallpaper that was ugly when they put…
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Wake Up and Get a Life!
Ephesians is a companion letter to Colossians, and here we find the bracing instruction, taken perhaps from an early Christian poem or hymn: “Awake, sleeper, rise from the dead, and the Messiah will give you light!” (5:14). In other words, it’s time to wake up! Living at the level of the nonheavenly world around you…
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Study and Obedience
Besides overseeing the schedule and volunteers, my big job at SDG Ballet and Arts Camp earlier this month was teaching Bible class for older and younger kids. For the older class, we started each day by looking at principles of study. For me, one of the most important principles of study is obedience. A quote…