By Steven & Kathryn White …
In teaching biblical apologetics to our children, it’s essential to create an environment where hard questions are not only welcomed but encouraged. Doubt and skepticism are natural parts of the human experience, and our children should feel safe to explore their faith and wrestle with difficult theological concepts.
By Amanda Pizzolatto … In this day and age, it seems many scientists, and non-scientists, are determined to prove the Bible as pure lies, or inspired by the mythos of surrounding civilizations. An interesting position to take considering that the mythos of a country is typically an exaggerated history of their people, using gods to explain the unexplainable.
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By Lyn Wilson … The ocean outside the cave seemed angry. The froth rose and fell as the waves pummeled the shore. The sand was littered with seaweed, bits of shell and pieces of fishermen’s nets.
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Silence
We paused
We looked
She leaped
Lillian stood frozen. She looked at the man who had been her friend since the “earth’s crust was forming”—the man who had spent the last three hours watching her heart rate more closely than the appetizers.
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … The heart is a tabernacle upon the Altar
Within it reposes our hopes and dreams
By Amanda Pizzolatto … Before Frank Capra could open “The Greatest Gift”, he would journey with “The Man from Montana”. Before staying in Bedford Falls, there was a trip to Washington D.C. Before there was George Bailey, there was Jefferson Smith.
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The issue with artists is that in order to be decent as an artist, you have to actually sit down at the drawing board and work. You don’t get good by accident.
By Ian Wilson
By Mary M. Isaacs … Alison finished her preparations for dinner, keeping one eye on the clock. She had managed to remain calm all morning as she cleaned the house, prepared for dinner, and packed a small bag to take to her cousin’s house. But now it was almost noon…. She stopped everything she was doing while watching the minute hand move forward slowly. Fear and apprehension flooded through her as the hour approached.
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Well, here are my 12 rules for writing adventure stories. Feel free to follow, or discard them at your own convenience, whatever fits your writing style…
By Ian Wilson
All English kings have tried to claim some legitimate connection to him, by blood or by some other means. But what made me, personally, choose to write about Camelot?
By Ian Wilson
By Amanda Pizzolatto … For history and myth make up the structure / Of a people strong, brave, and true
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I will start by saying the Beast is not a monster; the Beast is you and I…
By Ian Wilson
I’m gonna come right out and say it: no, Gaston is not the hero of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and making him into one misunderstands the plot and cheapens true masculinity…
By Ian Wilson
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Names have not been restored, as Aslan says / Some are pleased to call this Ground-Hog Day / Although there are no ground hogs here / But the Presentation is everywhere and forever
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When does Christmas end? It depends who you ask. The Christmas Octave brings us to January 1st. The 12 Days of Christmas take us up to Epiphany (January 6th). You could celebrate the 20ish days till the Baptism of the Lord, or the traditional 40 days until February 2nd – the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord.
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By Joshua David Ling … “I know you’re just a legend. / An echo of one that was. / Harbingella is just an evil woman. / Amy is more because / Harbingella doesn’t really live anymore…
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By Sarah Losardo … One of the sons of Zebedee – also known as the Sons of Thunder – John shows up in the Gospels as the “one who Jesus loved”, one of the ones who asked for a place at Jesus’ right and left hand, the one disciple who followed Jesus to the Cross, the only disciple not to be martyred, and the writer of a gospel, three letters, and the book of Revelation (or the Apocalypse). What else do we know about this apostle?
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By Joshua David Ling … “O’er the hills and through the pain, / Where I will be Witch-Queen again, / I command and this body obeys, / Over the hills and gone always!”
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By Joshua David Ling … Over the last chapters of this story, / We saw heroes and heroines in fantastic glory. / From Cyrus the Cyclone, to Bobby the Magician. / To William the Knight, and Amira the bless’d twin…
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