by Janice MacLean | Jun 11, 2018 | Book Reviews, Reflections
I invited Prayer Bench friends on the facebook page to offer suggestions for summertime reading. Here are their recommendations: From a Sunday Morning small group study. Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans — Trying to envision how to “pass along” the...
by Janice MacLean | Jan 7, 2017 | Book Reviews, Reflections
Annika’s wee book, Neighbours, arrived. I love holding it in my hands. It feels inviting. It is a delight to absorb the bright pictures. Her re-telling of the story of the Good Samaritan pulls you in. I showed it to a nine-year-old who immediately sat on the...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 11, 2016 | Book Reviews, Reflections
BOOK REVIEW (actually more of my experience with a book): Until I Needed the Song: The Story of That Time God and Jesus Took an Angel Named Abigail On a Road Trip by Steven Case Received as an ebook from Speakeasy for review. “What if God is a being of...
by Janice MacLean | Nov 11, 2015 | Book Reviews, Reflections
BOOK REVIEW (actually more of my experience with a book): Beauty as a State of Being: Mastering Mind and the Spiritual Path by Solomon Katz Received as an ebook from Speakeasy for review I like books. I don’t have oodles of time for reading so I usually choose...
by Janice MacLean | May 18, 2015 | Ordinary, Reflections
Hello friends, Summer-time and reading on the deck, at the cottage, on the beach. What are you reading this summer? What’s the best summer book you ever read? Please share your suggestions in the “Leave a reply” box. The May newsletter profiled four...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 3, 2015 | Ordinary, Reflections
Consider this sparkling dialogue in The Long Way Home by Louise Penny: Clara asked Ruth: “How do your poems start out?” “They start as a lump in the throat,” she said. “Isn’t that normally just a cocktail olive lodged there?” Olivier asked. “Once,” Ruth admitted....
by Janice MacLean | Jan 24, 2015 | Ordinary, Reflections
My bookshelf is newly organized as I brought office-living books home. The home books were generous. They moved aside and made space. In the process of touching every book and finding its spot, I noticed how many books I haven’t read. You too? Here’s a...
