Dear Ones, Katherine Paterson and Audrey Assad! Are! Coming! And — you’re invited! I needed to shout that news across the internet. This fall’s first Madeleine L’Engle “Walking on Water” Conference will feature these two creative minds in big ways. (!!) First, let’s talk music: Award-winning singer-songwriter Audrey Assad will be Musician-in-Residence at the conference! […]
By RuthAnn Deveney Recently, I read Anne Bogel‘s upcoming release, I’d Rather Be Reading, which is a lovely collection of bookish essays. In the piece entitled, “A Reader’s Coming of Age,” Anne talks about the transition in her early twenties, when she had to go from having books chosen for her to needing to choose her own […]
“This question of the meaning of being, and dying and being, is behind the telling of stories around tribal fires at night; behind the drawing of animals on the walls of caves; the singing of melodies of love in spring, and of the death of green in autumn. It is part of the deepest longing […]
Ken LewisMy youngest daughter and I read a picture book by Madeleine L’Engle the other night. We hadn’t shared The Other Dog before, so we sat smooshed in an armchair with it, each of us holding a cover. And we laughed: it’s a good book. The dog, Touché, L’Engle Franklin, is upset over a “new dog” […]
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