Posts Tagged ‘reading’
A Book, a Classroom, and the Gift of Well-Read Mom
I‘ve had the pleasure of working as a subcontractor for Well-Read Mom for five years now, but it took me a few years to actually join them in reading and meeting every month. Why?
Read MoreBeyond the Oxford Comma
By the end of that project, I felt called—not only to be in a Well-Read Mom group but to lead one. This was a big surprise to me. Although I’m a lifelong reader and a professional writer, I have never been in a book club.
Read MoreThe Missing Link
If more students witnessed their parents reading at home, they’d be encouraged and more likely to engage in reading, too. That is why I think Well-Read Mom is the missing link.
Read MoreConfident, Loving, True Education
As many of us parents, teachers, and students gear up for another school year (and a thousands of women gear up for another season with Well-Read Mom), it’s helpful to consider the loving witness of true educators and how it can fuel this upcoming chapter.
Read MoreThe Things We Married: Challenges of Military Spouse Life and How We Overcame them with Literature
We moved books we’d bought for book clubs: souvenirs of conversations we’d had with friends we’d been immeasurably close to for short but intense seasons.
Read MoreAn Armchair Revolution: Take Back Your Time
Approaching literature begins with leisure. Recovering leisure reading as a kind of spiritual discipline will help us move from interior boredom to an expanding inner life.
Read MoreThen and Now: The Impact of Rereading
Then and Now: The Impact of Rereading Written by Caitlin Bootsma “You’re definitely Meg,” my younger sister insisted. “You’re the oldest, and…well, I’m obviously Jo.” I did NOT want to be Meg; couldn’t we both be Jo? There was no question then that our next sister was Amy, and, in our teenage years, no one…
Read MoreReclaiming My Literary Patrimony: A Reflection on Reading King Lear
As I read King Lear, the word patrimony came to mind. Of course, the plot of the play centers around a king giving away his inheritance to his daughters. But I was also recalling a phrase that I first encountered in Theology of Home, The Spiritual Art of Homemaking.
Read MoreHow a Women’s Book Club Enhanced My Spiritual Life
For years, I had heard great things about Well-Read Mom, a national women’s book club, but I had never had a chance to join. Then, last year, a friend invited me to the chapter that meets once a month in her home. I was more than ready to dive into a discussion of great books with like-minded ladies. As a serious bibliophile, I get a little lonely reading in isolation. I hoped for deep literary discussion with fellow women of faith.
Read MoreThe Poverty of the Moment
Francis came face to face with poverty and realized that “it was not a loathsome thing to be shunned but something holy”(20). Francis believed that you could not truly love Christ without loving Lady Poverty. It is the natural result of love because “Love must give or it is not love” (21).
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