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Reading Beyond Reason—Encountering Edu-tainment

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I’ve been at the Oregon Christian Writers Conference all week and had a FABULOUS time! Liz Curtis Higgs and Georgene Rice were our keynote speakers, and we had wonderful editor and agent workshops each day to hone our writing craft. This conference was extra special because my two best friends and critique partners, Meg Wilson (middle) and Velynn Brown (left), …

Camping Trip Teaches Truth of Scripture

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I’m forty-nine years old, and I went camping for the first time last weekend. Before moving to the Great Pacific Northwest in 2007, my idea of “roughing it” was staying at Motel 6 rather than Hampton Inn. But the beauty of God’s creation beckoned, and late in the fall of 2011 our family dreamed of someday owning a piece of …

3 Ways to Avoid Spiritual Famine

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What Kind of “Spiritual Famine”? In Israel’s history, the days of King Jeroboam II, Amos prophesied Yahweh’s message of an imminent famine to Amaziah, High Priest at Bethel’s temple, home of the golden calf: “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land—not a famine of food or a thirst for water, …

Favorite Biblical Research Sources

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The Age of Information I’m so thankful to be writing in an era when information and research is so readily available. The Good News: There’s SO MUCH INFORMATION out there about every period in history. Everybody who’s anybody has the ability to share his/her expertise. The Bad News: There’s SO MUCH INFORMATION out there about every period in history. Everybody …