Do you plan to use Finding Faithfulness: A Year of Reading and Reflecting on God’s Word in 2025? Because the year begins on a Wednesday, you may wish to start with the Week 1/Day 2 entry on January 1. Week 1/Day 6 is an appropriate entry for Epiphany (Monday, January 6). The shorter Day 1 … Continue reading Finding Faithfulness in 2025
Finding Faithfulness reminders
In an earlier post, I suggested ways to pair daily entries from Finding Faithfulness: A Year of Reading and Reflecting on God's Word with specific dates to make holiday reading more meaningful in 2024. As the end of this year approaches, a couple of reminders may be timely and helpful. If you've reached Week 47, … Continue reading Finding Faithfulness reminders
Stirring with Strife
Stirring with Strife, Book 3 in my Blender Adventures series, has launched! The series includes four novels about a blended family (for readers ages 8-12 and above). In the first two novels, Dicing with Disaster and Mixing with Madness, Emily Hanford deals with typical sixth grade concerns and faces challenges associated with her mother's death … Continue reading Stirring with Strife
Mixing with Madness
Mixing with Madness, Book 2 in my Blender Adventure series, has launched! The series includes four novels about a blended family (for readers ages 8-12 and above). Spring break promises 12-year-old Emily Hanford a long-awaited vacation, basking in the sun on Cancun’s white beaches. But a global pandemic sweeps away her holiday dream and surges … Continue reading Mixing with Madness
Using Finding Faithfulness in 2024
Have you enjoyed daily devotions this year, using Finding Faithfulness: A Year of Reading and Reflecting on God's Word? This may sound strange, coming from the author, but I have loved going through this guideline and seeing new truths in the Bible every day. Many other people have expressed their joy in using the book, … Continue reading Using Finding Faithfulness in 2024
Finding Faithfulness: A Year of Reading and Reflecting on God’s Word
I'm thrilled to announce the impending launch of my 12th published book, which has been decades in the making. Regularly reading through the Bible each year as well as my research and writing have led to this reflective Bible reading plan--just in time for implementation in 2023! Finding Faithfulness: A Year of Reading and Reflecting … Continue reading Finding Faithfulness: A Year of Reading and Reflecting on God’s Word
Heartbreak and Hope: On Schizophrenia
Book review by Glenda Faye Mathes Broken Pieces and the God Who Mends Them: Schizophrenia through a Mother’s Eyes by Simonetta Carr; published by P&R Publishing, Phillipsburg, New Jersey, 256 pages; © 2019 In Broken Pieces and the God Who Mends Them, Simonetta Carr transparently shares the heartbreak and confusion of losing a son to schizophrenia, … Continue reading Heartbreak and Hope: On Schizophrenia
Pulitzer Prize Good News
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded last Thursday to Kazuo Ishiguro, which is good news. Ishiguro writes literary novels that defy genre boundaries and garner popular appeal. Here's the New York Times online story about the award. And here's a Times 2015 interview with Ishiguro that explores his reading opinions and related reflections. … Continue reading Pulitzer Prize Good News
Reading Recommendations
After a recent speaking engagement, I was asked for some book recommendations. Having expended a great deal of mental energy into the talks I'd just given, I felt a little brain dead and came up with only a few favorites. I did recall and mention, however, this earlier post that includes a variety of nonfiction … Continue reading Reading Recommendations
Cherie Harder on reading fiction
Over at the Trinity Forum blog, Cherie Harder, President of Trinity Forum's Board of Directors, writes this excellent defense for reading fiction.
Glenda Faye Mathes 