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2021 Favorites Happy New Year from our new home! We ended 2021 by moving back to the UK. It’s been a bit of a flurry, but now we are in our new home in Bristol, quarantining and waiting for our shipment of stuff to arrive. Our house is currently empty except for a couple of …
2020 Favorites Happy New Year from Castle Bluff! We are staying at a cabin in the woods where the mood outside is matching all my feels about the year we just finished. I am happy to join in the collective sigh of relief that 2020 is officially over. For the final month of 2020, I …
A Meditation from Richard Rohr’s The Universal Christ Hello sweet friends. I’m locked down in quarantine just like most everyone else. But last week I was in Arkansas and I spent a couple of days hiking with my dad, and while I was in one of my favorite places, I sat down and recorded this …
A Recipe for Moon Milk Y’all recently I have started making Moon Milk, also sometimes called Golden Milk. I have been loving the addition of turmeric to All The Things lately. I enjoy a turmeric tea and a turmeric latte, but I am even more delighted with the discovery of Moon Milk because of its …
Hello 2020. I’m grateful you’re here. I am already pumped for all that’s coming in 2020. It’s going to be an AMAZING year, I can feel it. But before we get too far into 2020, I want to I want to take a minute to record some favorites from 2019. So here are some of …
Favorites of 2018 Hello 2019. I’m grateful you’re here. There are so many things I am already hoping and praying for in the year ahead. But before I get ahead of myself, I want to take a minute to be grateful for what 2018 brought into my life. So here are some of the books, …
Thoughts on reading: The Color of Compromise: The Truth About The American Church’s Complicity in Racism A new book by Jemar Tisby I have been following Jemar Tisby’s work for a couple of years now and have been eagerly anticipating the release of his new book The Color of Compromise, so when calls went out …
February 28, 2017 Dear White People (including myself), As Black History Month wraps up, I want to make a plea that we all choose not be done with Black History for the year. Current events are daily revealing how necessary it is that all Americans learn Black History all year long. For how long? For …
Happy Thanksgiving Friends! (That’s me waving to you from across the pond!) Since I am not cooking a turkey or even baking making Grandmother’s rolls today, I thought I would take a few minutes to share a collection of the thoughts of my heart from the past week or so. Because I am just a …
A dear friend of mine, Jerusalem Greer, wrote a book that was published last spring called A Homemade Year. It is a lovely book of of stories, photos, recipes and craft ideas for celebrating the Christian liturgical year. The recipes and crafts are wonderfully practical for giving your family ideas for celebrating some of these …
If it seems like this Seven Project is lasting forever, well, that would be because… it is. Seriously, last month was Media, and I still haven’t caught up on all the things I missed. Of course, it’s possible that if I am trying to cram all the information back into my life after the screen …
I just need a couple of hours to myself. Do you ever feel that way? Since Spring Break, it feels like we have been in catch up mode. Since my husband works at a church, sometimes Holy Week is really busy. I have to be super intentional to pay attention on Easter Weekend or sometimes …
Since reading The Orphan Master’s Son, I have picked up several other books on North Korea. All of a sudden it’s like I CAN. NOT. LOOK. AWAY. I am obsessed. The escape stories. The starvation in camps stories. The day to day COMPLETE LACK OF FREEDOM. Every time I think I have read the worst …
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson is a thrilling, stay-up-until-you-can-not-hold-your-eyes-open tale of a young boy who is searching for meaning (and just trying to stay alive) in the most repressive nation of our time. Set in modern day North Korea, The Orphan Master’s Son reads like a futuristic George Orwell novel. I kept …
In January I joined up with a fellow blogger who was hosting a read-along of Bonhoeffer’s biography by Eric Metaxas with the understanding that we would post our thoughts on the first half of this book today and then do the same for the second half of the book on March 15. I’m so grateful …
Today is Ash Wednesday. The beginning of Lent. The wait for spring. For Resurrection. This treasure of a book, Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter, has been my Lenten companion for several years now. It is a collection of essays by all different writers. It opens with this beautiful quote from Graham Greene: …
I finally finished The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson last week and I cannot recommend it highly enough. The Great Migration is such an important (and much overlooked) part of American history. So many individual stories of leaving gathered together into a movement that changed America. Isabel Wilkerson has taken apart the movement …
I am still working my way through The Warmth of Other Suns. I even read a few stories aloud at dinner this week. I am in the middle of Part 4, which is the is the largest section of The Warmth of Other Suns. The section is entitled The Kinder Mistress, from the Langston Hughes‘ …
It’s important to me at all times of the year to be reading about a culture that makes up half of the town I live in here in Arkansas, but especially during Black History month, I try to introduce some new aspect of African-American history at the Chino House. This year we are looking at …
A few of my favorite reads of 2012 The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer The City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell Peace Like A River by Leif Enger The Fiddler’s Green by A.S. Peterson (sequel to The Fiddler’s …