Twice, I’ve started this Thomas Merton memoir, billed as “one of the most famous books ever written about a man’s search for faith and peace.” But then well, I got busy… I ran across it in late May as I was cleaning my bookshelves, and I swear, this will be the time I finish… Continue reading On the Nightstand: Seven-Storey Mountain
Category: Writing
Friends in Faith: Darlene Davis
A Little Women coloring book. A book of mothers’ wisdom. A sheet of observations, her own (“Sometimes memories sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks”) and others. Darlene Davis, who lives in a small town in Michigan’s thumb, has been sending out these joy packages to friends during the time of covid.… Continue reading Friends in Faith: Darlene Davis
On the Nightstand: Seeking Peace
These are unusual times, to say the least. I think it’s a God thing that my friend Allison Gingras’s latest book, Seeking Peace: A Spiritual Journey from Worry to Trust, officially launches today. In this, the latest in a series of journals the Lord put on her heart a few years ago, Allison offers seven ways to… Continue reading On the Nightstand: Seeking Peace
On the Nightstand: Unsheltered
My sister has been, well, my sister for decades and my roommate for nearly sixteen years. Yet we’ve never read a new-to-both-of-us book at the same time. We’re changing that up this month by reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered, about two families who lived in a New Jersey home a century apart. I’ve enjoyed several other… Continue reading On the Nightstand: Unsheltered