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"This was done for you." Season 2, Episode 2, The Chosen. Nathaniel sits under a fig tree with a stack of failed dreams in his...

Well, I had a good run, but I've officially reached the other side of my first Covid test! I'm grateful that my family has been able to...

I shy away from blogging on Easter weekends—probably because the greatest point in history needs no commentary from a first-year geek at...

Ladies, you know what I'm talking about. Those days when the world drizzles in shades of grey, everything is sob-worthy, and the future...

Don't you just love it when your daily devotion reaches out to slap you in the face? I certainly do. Well, mostly. Some of the time. It...

I thought I knew exactly what God wanted me to do. When I set out to write my first "real" novel (excluding its epic mermaid precursor),...

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary ... It...

I'm trying to start a new habit. I love going for walks down my country road when my head feels crowded with the things of this big ol'...

Kindle is sick of being unexceptional—that is, until a mysterious necklace transports her to the world of Anelthalien, where suddenly,...

Life threw me for a loop this week, y'all. One minute I'm rolling along, feeling reasonably in-control of my routine, and the next I'm...

Funny thing about toast—when you smell it, you want it. Ever notice that? I mean, there was a time when I would sooner eat dirt than...

I am a Truthwatcher. I know because the very thorough results from my "Official Knights Radiant Order Quiz" told me so, and we book nerds...

One thing I've been awful at since day one—discerning God's will when I don't know how to move forward. Especially in the publishing...

I can happily say that my new favourite show is officially The Chosen—not only marked by quality acting, sweet costumes, killer...

Born a house slave on Whitehaven Plantation, Pheobe knows how to watch and listen and hide secrets away where no one will find...

Anyone who's watched High School Musical or the Teen Beach Movie or any such Disneylicious teen drama know that at some point or another,...

The 39 books of the Old Testament paint a picture of what C.S. Lewis calls the "hammering process—" centuries of God's hard-line training...

Squirrels get a bad rap. I know from experience—watching my family's ongoing bird-feeder vs. squirrel feud of feuds—but I can't help...

I don't abide by everything in my psychology course, but here's a fun fact (at least as I understand it): between ages 15 and 25, the...

Now, I typically don't write my Thankful Thursday posts at eight o'clock on Thursday night, but when life hands you lemons and a busy...