Anyone who follows this blog at all knows how grateful to God I am for my children, for their spouses, and for my children’s children. It is a wonderful thing to read fat theological books about the covenant, but to actually see the promises of the covenant taking three-dimensional shape right in front of you …
Parables in Film
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 …
Thanks to God
Please rejoice together with us. Just back from the hospital, where my youngest daughter Rachel delivered my two youngest grandchildren, a girl and a boy, joining the tribe of their two older sisters. The new babies are Chloe Lynn Geddes Jankovic (7 pounds 2 ounces) and Titus James Jankovic (7 pounds 9 ounces). That’s a lot …
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 …
Stop It
Wonder how many counselors have felt this way at the end of the day. HT: Justin Taylor
Go Blue
Here is a quick look at the religious history of the world in 90 seconds. Quite encouraging, really. HT: Joost Nixon
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.
And Way to the Right
A former student was hiking in Virginia, and snapped a photo of something that he thought was pretty funny. Must be thinking of the east coast Wilsons.