The bad news is that the bookplates I mentioned yesterday for 100 Cupboards are now gone. That’s the good news too.
Just After the Nick of Time
You all know that those who are interested may order 100 Cupboards from Canon Press. Right? Right. Now for some reason, best known only to themselves, the good folks at Random House determined that they wanted to release this book on December 26, just after the nick of time. But this great present/wrong day problem …
A Truckload of Granddaughters
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.