These ancient forests grew by means of the light and heat of the sun, so that a piece of coal is really so much fossil sunshine! And when you warm yourselves by the fire, you are really enjoying the heat of the sun, which was poured down on some forest of those old, old days,…
Now I love Bible study and talking about the Bible. But I am firmly in the camp of ‘we aren’t going to think our way to holiness’. We are loving, desiring creatures, and our loves and desires are shaped by many things. Hence my latest article on Momma Theologians. I think this can be a…
This article from Michael Morpurgo on The Guardian has been making the rounds online. From my perspective as a home educator, I want my kids to understand grammar and have a decent grasp of spelling. However, analyzing language should only ever come after a child has a deep affection for language, years of falling in…
A few thoughts on the English Reformation and the period that followed (after finishing Cromwell to Cromwell): While I’ve had my eye on Alan Jacob’s biography on the Book of Common Prayer for several months, I think I’m going to bite the bullet after seeing how contentious the book was through out the Tudor/Stuart period….
“The king was now in the hands of the armed forces of the kingdom, not of its Parliament” John Schofield, Cromwell to Cromwell, p. 186 “In this way the King became the prisoner of the army instead of the prisoner of the Parliament.” H.E. Marshall, Our Island Story I picked up Cromwell to Cromwell in…
In trying to spend as little money on a worship space as possible or making it nondescript as to make it unassuming or inoffensive, we risk forgetting three things: one, that we worship God in physical bodies in physical spaces; two, that these physical spaces are place of spiritual formation; and three, that all beauty…
When I launched this blog, I had two very young children. I wrote most of my articles sitting on a second hand, brown sofa in a small terraced house with a mind desperate to bring some of my hazy, disorganized thoughts into order. These thoughts largely related to children and motherhood, especially parenting, play, and…
How is narration going in your homeschool? Personally, I have a 4.5 year old who likes his chance to tell back, a nearly-seven-year-old who is pretty enthusiastic (although will miss out major plot points from time to time), and an eight year old who is completely capable but who is a bit slow to start…
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In less than six weeks, I will close the books on our homeschool lessons for the year and herald the beginning of our six week Christmas vacation. Six weeks may seem like a long break for a cold and dark time of year, but with a cluster of family birthdays mixed with the extra activity…