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A Wrinkle in Time at Fifty Years

posted on January 31, 2012 by

Madeline L’Engle was a little-known novelist and mother of three when she and her actor husband, Hugh Franklin, decided to move from rural Connecticut back to New York City so he could re-start his acting career.  Before the move, in the spring of 1959, the family took a ten-week, cross-country camping trip, during which she [...]

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Christ in Literature: Worlds Without God? (pt.1)

posted on May 16, 2011 by

“They know bits and pieces of the Old Testament—how God created the heavens and the earth, what rules he wants us to follow, how he worked through faithful believers to inflict justice on enemies. But they often fail to see how it all fits together as one story of grace from first to last, featuring [...]

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Good Christian Girls, Part Two

posted on May 10, 2011 by

(Concluding a rather random survey of recent YA novels for girls from Christian publishers.  Part one is here.) Beautiful, by Cindy Martinusen-Coloma.  Thomas Nelson, 2009, 272 pages. The subtitle is Truth’s Found When Beauty’s Lost.  Ellie Summerfield is the iconic high-school good girl: overachieving, daytimer-driven, service-oriented, kind, smart–and beautiful.  Until an accident scars her face.  [...]

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Good Christian Girls

posted on May 5, 2011 by

I remember when Jeanette Oke and “deliverance” stories were about the only options teenage girls had if they wanted to read some Christian fiction.  The inventory has greatly expanded, especially in the YA category, and almost every secular literary genre now has its Christian counterpart, especially for girls.  Does she like historical, cozy mystery, fantasy, paranormal, sci-fi, lighthearted [...]

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