As those of you who’ve been visiting here for more than about six months know, one of my favorite things to do is read. And when I say read, I don’t mean magazines or newspapers. I don’t mean websites or blogs. I mean books. There is something about...
Last month I read the first book in Andrew Peterson’s Wingfeather Saga, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, to my kids. It was so delightful that my husband joined us for story time, too. This is a big deal. Many of the books I read he decides are not worth his...
A few Decembers ago, a woman from my church, Lynn, read one of my posts about my favorite Christmas books. She asked me if I’d read A Tree for Peter by Kate Seredy and said it was one of her favorite books, that she read it to her boys year after year, that it...
Yesterday marked the beginning of a new church year—and the beginning of the season of Advent. For the next few weeks, the Church will be preparing to celebrate the mystery of Incarnation. Here are a few resources to help make your Advent preparations more...
If you’ve been hanging around these parts the past few weeks, you’ll have read the first two installments of a delightful interview with Sarah Clarkson, author of Read for the Heart, an annotated list of good books for children, which I regularly pore over...
K.C. Ireton is a writer and teacher. The author of The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year and Cracking Up: A Postpartum Faith Crisis, she lives near Seattle with her husband and four school-aged children. She is a lover of books, gardens, and tea. Also, Oxford commas.