He is Not Silent

Of late, my church and my pastor have had need of me to preach.  That is a special privilege and it is a conviction of mine that the needs of His people are the commands of Christ, so I have tried to obey.  Yet, I can see readily enough that my style is a bit [...]

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The Attributes of God (a family review)

A Maiden’s Reverie
My husband and I recently finished reading The Attributes of God together with our children for our daily devotionals.  It has been a sweet time as we gathered together in the evenings to read about God’s character and to discuss Him with one another.  The girls would pick up their knitting work and [...]

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Step by Step

Patience is the first virtue listed by Paul in his hymn on the fullness of Love, and without love, of course, even a superior grasp of every mystery leaves us nothing.  It follows, therefore, that without patience, a teacher merely teaches of himself.  I was glad then with the book selection our pastor had made [...]

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Through the Burning Steppe: A Memoir of Wartime Russia, 1942:1943

Russian history and culture has long fascinated me.  Ever since my own journeys to St. Petersburg in 1995 and 1996, I have been reading books on Russian life, especially that of the 20th century.  I began initially with a biography on Nicholas and Alexandra, the last Romanov tsar and tsarina before the Revolution in 1917.  [...]

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