A former student and family friend, Ian Kern, has apparently been making himself useful. This project he is associated with shows a great deal of promise — film shorts of the parables of Christ in modern settings, along with application videos. Ian was kind enough to send me a review copy of Volume I, and …
Credenda Turns Twenty
Below please find the next fundraising letter being sent out by Credenda. It even has some big news in it. If the appeal brings you to tears, go to this page, and click appropriately. December 2007 Dear Friends of Credenda, Next month we begin our twentieth year of publication. We are extremely grateful to God …
Henry York and His Cousins
Next month Random House will be releasing Nate’s first book in a fantastic trilogy (using both senses of fantastic here). The name of the first book is 100 Cupboards — the next two will be Dandelion Fire and The Chestnut King. You can pre-order Cupboards here, but if you are not quite ready to do …
A Good Interview
There is a really good interview here with Nate about his writing projects.
OK in the UK
Now that Bekah has weighed in, all my girls are blogging together over at Femina. Worth a trip over.
Go Check out the Upgrade
I am happy to announce that Nancy’s blog has a new look — check it out here. And joining her in posting will be my daughter-in-law Heather Wilson, and my two daughters, Bekah Merkle and Rachel Jankovic. Go, fight, win.
A lot of pastors could do worse than to insert this little number in a service somewhere as “special music.” HT: Peter Scholtens
A Fun Review
Here is a really fun review of Leepike Ridge by Elizabeth Bird. She is the children’s librarian for the Donnell Central Children’s Room for the New York Public Library System. She has served on Newbery, and written for Horn Book, and so she knows a good book when she reads one. It was a pleasure …
Big Doings at our Place
Sorry about all the visuals. I am in a picture groove. Those of you who have been to our home may be aware that we have put our three acres together with the two acres of our neighbor to the south, along with three more acres from our neighbor to the north, and are having …
Henry York Has Cupboards
Since its release a couple months ago, Leepike Ridge has been doing very well, and it looks like we may have some more exciting news about the book in the future. Been a lot of fun. But the reason for this post is that Nate’s web site is now up, and you can find it …