Susan's Pendulum

January Mrs Entwhistle: Once You're Over the Hill, You Pick Up Speed,  by Reidy Miss Budge in Love,  by Simpkins February How Green Was ...

January:   Bright Valley of Love , by Edna Hong  *** Dashing through the Snow,  by Debbie Macomber Mildred Budge in Cloverdale, by Daphne Si...

Surviving the Storms: Memoirs of David P. Scaer -- finished April 2. The Baritone Wore Chiffon , by M. Schweizer -- finished April 28. The ...

            Western Church           Eastern Church 2022:     April 17                     April 24 2023:     April 9                      A...

  The Theology of the Cross, by H. Sasse (in We Confess Jesus Christ) Richest Man in Babylon, by G. Clason A Christian Guide to Mental Illne...

2018 33 Going on Girlfriend, by Monson -- January 3 34 Going on Bride, by Monson -- May 27 He Remembers the Barren, by Schuermann -- Jan ...

Praying Psalm 135 this morning, I kept being distracted by the lines lifted from elsewhere in Scripture. Verse 1 comes from Psalm 113. V...

"Cleaving" is like "flammable."  It can mean the opposite of itself. Sometimes cleaving means clinging, hanging on, be...

We always think of Moses as the Law-giver.  It's true.  The law did come to us from God through Moses.  But what else did Moses do? He...

Peter and John got themselves arrested when they healed the paralytic (Acts 3) and preached to the people about the forgiveness of sins.  It...

Sometimes we look at the way Christians worship in other lands and think, "That's African Christian culture" or "That...

You cut your finger while making dinner.  It hurts.  For the next few days, you turn the doorknobs and brush your teeth with the sore finger...

In the Reproaches on Good Friday, we pray, "Holy and mighty God." On Good Friday.  When God hangs on a cross, dying. Mighty  ...

Abreva heals cold sores. A person who gets cold sores the size of Rhode Island may think that she's built up a resistance to the medic...

Jesus tells us (in Luke 24) that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and ...

My dad came from a large family.  When the family got together for Christmas at my grandma's house, it would be 40-50 people.  Kids exch...

Christ for Us, by Preus -- fifth re-read in April 2017 (following book layout) Pioneer Girl: The Annotatated Autobiography -- May 3. The B...

Ivan Denisovich, by Solzhenitsyn   -- July 29. Mothering Many, by MacPherson -- August 13. Every Woman's Guide to Foot Pain Relief, b...

How to Respond to  Eastern Religions -- finished Jan 7 Crunchy Cons, by Dreher -- finished Jan 13 Holy Housewifery -- finished Jan 17 Wild S...

When you're tempted to think that the liturgy isn't important, remember that contemporary worship was why Judah and Israel were dest...