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“Green Eggs and Ham”: Creating Wonder, Imagination, and Joy Through Reading

May 14, 2021May 14, 2021 Steve Lytle 2 Comments Books, Children, Dr. Seuss, Family, Family Time, Green Eggs and Ham, Quality Time, Reading

“Take a look. It’s in a book”

The Arts Film

Rambling Ever On Revisits “Independence Day”

April 6, 2021April 7, 2021 Phill Lytle 2 Comments Aliens, Bill Pullman, Film, Independence Day, Jeff Goldblum, Movies, Sci-Fi, Will Smith

Now that’s what I call a close encounter!

Literature The Five

What to do with your Stimulus Money? Buy Books of Arminian Theology, of Course.

March 26, 2021March 29, 2021 David Lytle 2 Comments Arminian, Books, John Piper, Keith Stanglin, Literature, Reading, Robert Picirilli, Roger Olsen, Stimulus, Thomas McCall, Thomas Oden, Timothy Tennent

Use your stimulus money wisely. Buy these five books on Arminian theology.

Literature

Rambling Ever On Ranks The Chronicles of Narnia

January 29, 2021January 29, 2021 Staff 6 Comments Books, C.S. Lewis, Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Prince Caspian, Ranking, Reading, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Horse and His Boy, The Last Battle, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Magician's Nephew, The Silver Chair, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

We attempt the impossible: Ranking “The Chronicles of Narnia” from best to worst.

Literature Reviews

Four Fantastic Biographies I Read This Year

December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 Gowdy Cannon 3 Comments Biographies

Four Christians Worth Knowing

Film Literature Television The Arts

“If There Be Any Virtue” – The Mid-Week Spotlight

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 Phill Lytle 2 Comments Aaron Sorkin, Alan Cumming, Alex Kingston, Apologetics, Auralia's Colors, Books, Elizabeth Reaser, Fantasy, Felicity Huffman, Film, Greg Koukl, Jeffrey Overstreet, John Heard, Josh Charles, Literature, Lois Smith, Movies, Ned Beatty, Peter Krause, Sports Night, Sweet Land, Television, The Story of Reality, Theology, Tim Guinee

You can find truth, beauty, and joy just about anywhere.

500 Music

Review: NEEDTOBREATHE – Out of Body

August 28, 2020June 10, 2021 Phill Lytle 2 Comments band, Bear Rinehart, Bo Rinehart, Christian Rock, HARD LOVE, Josh Lovelace, music, NEEDTOBREATHE, Out of Body, Rock and Roll, Seth Bolt, The Outsiders, The Reckoning

Our review of NEEDTOBREATHE’s long awaited new album.

500 Words or Less Literature The Five

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – and the Beauty of Friendship

July 6, 2020May 17, 2021 Nathan Patton 1 Comment Brave, Cake, Charlie Mackesy, Courage, Friendship, Giving Up, Graphic Novel, Help, Honest, Love, Ordinary, Sketch, Strength, The Boy, The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse, The Fox, The Horse, The Mole, Weakness

May we all have friends like the boy, the mole, the fox, and the horse. No, may we all BE friends like them. Both, maybe? … Cake!

Literature The Five

Inspiration from The Green Ember

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Nathan Patton 5 Comments Action, Anger, Commonplace Book, Ember Falls, Emma Joveson, Healing, Heather Longtreader, Hope, Jealousy, Picket Longtreader, Rabbits, S.D. Smith, Selfishness, Smalden "Smalls" Joveson, The Green Ember, Truth, Whittle Longtreader, Wilfred Longtreader, Wisdom

The Green Ember series has been meaningful to me in both the original context in which it was written and my personal context of the current events of 2020.

Literature Film The Five

How Hobbits Teach Us Courage

May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 Phill Lytle, Gowdy Cannon, Ben Plunkett, D.A. Speer and Nathan Patton 2 Comments Aragorn, Bilbo Baggins, Courage, Dwarves, Elves, Ents, Frodo Baggins, Gandalf, Gimli, Hobbits, J.R.R. Tolkien, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Merry Brandybuck, Middle Earth, Peregrin Took, Pippin Took, Samwise Gamgee, Second Breakfast, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, The Two Towers, Wizards

“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”