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    Family Summer Seminar: How Adventure Shapes Identity
    ubicaritas
    • Jun 7
    • 4 min

    Family Summer Seminar: How Adventure Shapes Identity

    We talked about how adventure shapes character as we first discussed Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe by Vera Williams and then Call...
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    Shakespeare + Kids?
    Charity Hill
    • May 3
    • 1 min

    Shakespeare + Kids?

    Children can begin to appreciate their literary inheritance and enjoy Shakespeare. Become a supportive reading community.
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    AN ETHICAL LOOK AT The Keeper of the Lost Cities SERIES
    Sydney Rosenberger
    • Apr 6
    • 10 min

    AN ETHICAL LOOK AT The Keeper of the Lost Cities SERIES

    (After my book review of the first novel in this series, I entered into conversation with Sydney Rosenberger a children's librarian. She...
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    CARING FOR WORDS WITH JENNY RICHESON, SLP
    Jenny Richeson
    • Jan 26
    • 2 min

    CARING FOR WORDS WITH JENNY RICHESON, SLP

    I hope you enjoyed the more technical exploration of word-language-reading issues that I discussed with Jenny Richeson. Here, we bow to...
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    Favorite Christmas Picture Books, 2021
    Charity Hill
    • Dec 6, 2021
    • 1 min

    Favorite Christmas Picture Books, 2021

    Thank you for purchasing books for your family through these links. I receive10% from Bookshop. You can use this list which has a couple...
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    The Death of Gratitude in the American Classroom
    Jeremy Adams
    • Nov 3, 2021
    • 7 min

    The Death of Gratitude in the American Classroom

    (Originally published in The Public Discourse. Used with author's permission.) JUNE 27, 2021. BY JEREMY ADAMS Encouraging people to be...
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    Mothering: The On-Going Birth Story
    Amanda Knapp
    • Sep 16, 2021
    • 4 min

    Mothering: The On-Going Birth Story

    I remember the moment of my oldest daughter's birth with incredible clarity. Every single birth of every single child is beautiful and...
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    Stories For Strong Girls
    Charity Hill
    • Aug 26, 2021
    • 2 min

    Stories For Strong Girls

    *Thank you for supporting this mission by buying books through these links! Stories for Strong Girls Ages 3-10: Big Sister Now. Annette...
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    An Open Letter to Comic Artists, Comic Readers, and Comic Apologists, To Mothers and Fathers
    Charity Hill
    • Aug 12, 2021
    • 9 min

    An Open Letter to Comic Artists, Comic Readers, and Comic Apologists, To Mothers and Fathers

    It was my great pleasure to discuss comics and beauty with Julian Peters on Episodes 16 and Episode 17 of Bright Wings: Children’s Books...
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    Images: In Conversation With Julian Peters, On Comics and Beauty
    Charity Hill
    • Jul 29, 2021
    • 1 min

    Images: In Conversation With Julian Peters, On Comics and Beauty

    Hello and Welcome! While you enjoy listening to the conversations about comics and beauty, please refer to these images. First, I present...
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    Confessions of a Fallen-Away Poet
    Amanda Knapp
    • May 21, 2021
    • 3 min

    Confessions of a Fallen-Away Poet

    Can I make a confession? In my entire life I have dropped only two course because they were too difficult. One was college statistics. ...
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    Gardening As Humanizing
    Charity Hill
    • Apr 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    Gardening As Humanizing

    Miss Bennet, there seemed to be a prettyish kind of a little wilderness at the side of your lawn. I should be glad to take a turn in it....
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    Spirituality vs. Morality: Further Reading Suggestions
    Charity Hill
    • Mar 31, 2021
    • 3 min

    Spirituality vs. Morality: Further Reading Suggestions

    Listening to the podcast Family Spirituality and Fiction caused me to think anew about its themes. I wonder if it raised questions in...
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    Connecting Faith and Life Through Reading
    Amanda Knapp
    • Mar 22, 2021
    • 5 min

    Connecting Faith and Life Through Reading

    I call my nine year old the Queen of Connections. I enjoy her royal abilities most of the time. I’m temporarily homeschooling my kids,...
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    Resilience in Real Life
    Charity Hill
    • Mar 9, 2021
    • 6 min

    Resilience in Real Life

    Who do you see practicing resilience? When you start noticing resiliency you may start to see it in more places than you'd imagined. Our...
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    Are Fairy Tales Good Mothering?
    Amanda Knapp
    • Feb 15, 2021
    • 4 min

    Are Fairy Tales Good Mothering?

    I remember the moment I saw my oldest daughter for the first time. I remember the quiet and the stillness and the soft lighting. Almost...
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    Where Am I Going? What Good Must I Do?
    Amanda Knapp
    • Feb 2, 2021
    • 4 min

    Where Am I Going? What Good Must I Do?

    How do we get where we are going? Honestly, that’s a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately. I find myself stuck in what Dr Suess...
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    Bloom Where You're Planted: How People, Place and Love Make a Home
    Katherine Leaño
    • Jan 12, 2021
    • 9 min

    Bloom Where You're Planted: How People, Place and Love Make a Home

    A cross stitch my granny made says: Bloom where you are planted. There is wisdom in that statement. Unlike plants, we usually make a...
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    The Freedom of the Childlike
    Maria Reilander
    • Dec 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Freedom of the Childlike

    Embracing life and the simple things in all their truth, beauty and goodness, Peter stays rooted in what really matters and experiences a...
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    Growing An Instinct for Beauty
    Erin Graver
    • Dec 11, 2020
    • 6 min

    Growing An Instinct for Beauty

    I am a bookworm, raising a flock of bookworms (what is the term for a group of worms? A…. squiggle? A squiggle of bookworms?) after me. I...
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    Episode 4: Great Illustrations and Why They Matter
    Charity Hill
    • Dec 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    Episode 4: Great Illustrations and Why They Matter

    Every experience of beauty points to eternity. Hans Urs von Balthasar We hope you enjoyed considering, along with Charity and Amanda,...
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    A Treasure to Impart
    Amanda Knapp
    • Dec 4, 2020
    • 3 min

    A Treasure to Impart

    She and I laid on the floor, a pink, soft blanket lying underneath us, as I held up MaryAnn Cusimano's You Are My I Love You, reading the...
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    Who Am I? ...Let the Adventure Begin!
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    • Nov 20, 2020
    • 3 min

    Who Am I? ...Let the Adventure Begin!

    Reality is a magical place. If you are not in awe of it, you can be sure you’ve lost touch with it. And touching it is only a beginning...
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    Beginning With The End
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    • Oct 30, 2020
    • 2 min

    Beginning With The End

    In my beginning is my end. T.S. Eliot If you've found this website, you've likely listened to our podcast. Like so many of us, you...
    224 views1 comment
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