Great news! I’m an official co-author of The Gratitude Book Project: Celebrating Moms and Motherhood. I was so excited to take part in this book, because having a wonderful mother — and now having a beautiful daughter — is so much a part of understanding who I am and connecting with what’s important to me. […]
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Closing the Circle of Nature
One glorious summer morning years ago I left my children with their grandparents in a small town in Iowa and went off to my first encounter with virgin tall-grass prairie. Armed with field guides and an indistinct map, I wandered down washboard gravel roads, not sure I’d recognize prairie when I found it. I did […]
The Lord is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!
There are at least two Connection insights that Easter gives me today: I believe that Jesus Christ, through his life and teaching, his death and resurrection, bridged the chasm between man and God and created forevermore a way to strengthen our connection with God. I believe that unless we take those lessons and become conduits […]
Book Review: Grace Notes, by Philip Yancey
Grace Notes: Daily Readings with a Fellow Pilgrim by Philip Yancey Reviewed by Elizabeth H. Cottrell 5 stars out of 5 I found this daily devotional very satisfying and inspiring…reminiscent of Frederick Buechner’s work. It consists of excerpts from Yancey’s other writings, some of which I had already read. I’ve added some others to my […]
Why I’ve given up on self-improvement (and so should you)…
I hate Bradford Pear trees. Hate them. It’s not because they’re trees. Trees in general, I like. As a whole, nature is my friend. My dislike of the poor Bradford Pear has to do with the human tinkering that brought it to so many suburban lawns in the mid 1990s. Dubbed the “perfect tree,” Bradford […]
Liberating Women, one word at a time…
UPDATE: This post was originally published in 2011. Cyndi no longer has The Sophia Project blog. Introducing Cyndi Briggs I just love to find women who not only have a vision, but who do whatever it takes to clear the deck of their life to pursue it. I’ve just discovered North Carolina writer Cyndi Biggs, […]
Book Review: Indelible Ink: Christian Leaders Name The Books That Changed Their Lives
Book Review: Indelible Ink: 22 Prominent Christian Leaders Discuss Books That Shape Their Faith edited by Scott Larsen with foreword by Philip Yancey I thoroughly enjoyed this book…and for different reasons than I expected. I ordered it because the foreword is by one of my favorite Christian authors, Philip Yancey, and because the title and […]
Book Review: In the Likeness of God by Philip Yancey and Paul Brand
Our body is a living miracle and all the evidence we need that there is a divine Creator. In the Likeness of God by Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey Reviewed by Elizabeth H. Cottrell 5 stars out of 5 I’ve been reading this book in small doses for a long time because there’s so […]