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Apr 9, 2012
Still: A Chat with Lauren Winner
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I’ve been a fan of author Lauren Winner’s work since her spiritual memoir Girl Meets God was released in 2002. I had the chance to meet her in 2010 when she taught a workshop at the Laity Lodge... Read More + |
Jan 2, 2012
Best of 2011 Books
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Our High Calling community enjoys reading and sharing the experience with others. This year we have featured books across diverse categories including business, poetry, and spiritual... Read More + |
Dec 9, 2011
Amazon's Offense
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David Wheeler is an independent, brick and mortar, bookseller. The High Calling loves books and people like David who sell them. But two or three clicks on the screen in front of me allows... Read More + |
Nov 9, 2011
Take It from a Wise Guy
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Years ago--almost 20, I think--I wrote a book of meditations on Proverbs, a little devotional for budding adolescents somewhere around the 8th-grade level. I remember the title, catchy--Take it... Read More + |
Sep 12, 2011
Bookworms: Sharing Stories
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I’ll never forget the day my father pulled in to the driveway of our country home—bearing treasure in the bed of that old pickup truck. It was a small pine bookshelf, loaded down with two... Read More + |
Jun 27, 2011
How to End Veneer: A Video Interview with Tim Willard
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Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Tim Willard, co-author (with Jason Locy) of a new book called Veneer: Living Deeply in a Surface Society. Rarely does a book resonate so deeply with... Read More + |
Jun 20, 2011
Summer Reading Recommendations from The High Calling
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Ah, summer reading. In high school it meant the curse of The Grapes of Wrath, The Scarlet Letter, 1984, Brave New World, and a test on the first day of class. Many years after graduation,... Read More + |
Dec 11, 2010
Top 10 Writing Books for Christmas
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I began my writing life as a clandestine affair--meeting the keyboard in secret for many months before confiding my wayward passion to my husband. I wasn’t entirely sure that he would... Read More + |
Nov 18, 2010
The Work of a Bookseller
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To speak of bookselling, one must first give heed to the library. From childhood, I had read, and read, and read. When I was sixteen I was hired as a page, at my hometown’s small, but... Read More + |
Jun 11, 2010
Picnic
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When I was a young girl and summer days stretched long before me, I whittled away the heavy heat one page at a time. A favorite thing to do was spread out on a quilt under a shade tree with my... Read More + |
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Daily Reflection From Laity Lodge
Add to the Beauty
During the past several days, I have been reflecting on various implications of a passage in Ezekiel 41 in which God reveals his plans for beautiful decorations of the temple in Jerusalem. I began... Read More +
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