Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
My siblings and I would come downstairs in the predawn darkness of mid-February to find a Valentine’s breakfast spread across the table. A box of chocolates, a valentine, paper hearts and lace scattered across the table, candles. Mama made heart-shaped toast. Thanks, Mum! It took me a while to understood why some friends hated Valentine’s…
The Kruegers and O’Shays — New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2014 Jane says, “Where am I, and what happened to my sock?” Best seat in the house! Horse-drawn carriages, colorfully dressed pedestrians, even a firetruck raced by. When we got the surprise news we were moving to Pensacola three years ago, we immediately made a list…
“Let There be Light” is our latest free review book! It’s written by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and is illustrated by Nancy Tillman, who’s done lots of best-selling books I haven’t actually read. It’s a lyrical, colorful portrayal of creation. The text is taken from “The Children of God Storybook Bible” by the archbishop. This book…
The best part of living in the Florida Panhandle is THE BEACH. Isaac has preschool one morning a week, and if I have time after running the necessary errands, Pensacola Beach is where I go. Once I tried to jog, but all I end up doing is looking for seashells. I love the beach, even…
I didn’t migrate to Florida to be THIS cold! The flamingo in normal conditions last September, hiding behind the hibiscus Santa Rosa County, where we live in the Florida Panhandle, has been under a State of Emergency this week thanks to Winter Storm Leon. Leon? Does any form of winter precipitation in the South get…
USS Alabama, Mobile Bay, Alabama We are moving this year. Don’t know when, don’t know where, just that it will happen. That means it’s time stop talking about wanting to go see the USS Alabama (2703 Battleship Parkway, Mobile, AL) and go see the USS Alabama, just across the shimmering wetlands of north Mobile Bay. It is…
1. Scriptural arguments for and against three views of hell make up the bulk of Steve Gregg’s “All You Want to Know About Hell.” Before that, Gregg spends several chapters explaining how words about hell are translated from Greek and Hebrew to English, contextualizing specific phrases and parables, and discussing a timeline for when commonly…
