My history with Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book goes back about 19 years to when I was expecting my second child and reading The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer. She mentions Adler’s book (if I remember correctly) and I found an older edition, probably not the one co-authored by Van Doren, at… Continue Reading
I guess you could say my 2018 Word of the Year was inspired by a song: I listened to it one Sunday spent at home with a sick child, and it really spoke to the longings of my heart. I was listening to it again while considering what my Word of the Year would… Continue Reading
This year’s word came to me after reading a quote from Tim Keller’s devotional The Songs of Jesus a few days ago. All of nature sings God’s glory; we alone are out of tune. The question is this: How can we be brought back into the great music? The answer is found in salvation through… Continue Reading