Brenda on Frugal Luxuries: “Starbucks coffee, Harney & Son teas, silver serving pieces purchased in thrift shops, good chocolate, Mrs. Meyers cleaning supplies, a class to learn cake decorating or gourmet cooking, great olive oil, Einstein’s bagels and coffee, a new book by my favorite author, Tresor, Lang Calendars, Half & Half, real butter, flowers, leather bound Bibles, broadband Internet…”

Brenda (Coffee Tea Books and Me) again on Jerry Falwell: “Contrary to much that has been written, Falwell wasn’t trying to take over the country and make it “Christian”. He was trying to take back what we had lost, those morals that were based on the Bible.”
Homemaking Through the Church Year on babywearing: “I’ve found more and more often that the answer to many homemaking dilemmas can be found when you answer your question with another question. That other question being: ‘How did women accomplish it in the eighteenth century?’ Or, as an missionary kid, I more often ask, ‘How do women do it in third-world countries?'”

Cindy at Dominion Family on book-reading in public: “Then there is the iPod option. You could listen to A Distant Mirror or The Warden via audiobook and that would be so respectable but then you would look so terribly modern and it would go against your agrarian ideals which whisper in your ear that you are probably going to lose your hearing because you have sold your soul to an iPod.”

The Christy Awards 2007 nominees are listed at Faith in Fiction. The Christy Awards are given in several categories to fiction books published by Christian publishers. I’ve read one of the nominees, Winter Birds by Jamie Langston Turner (Semicolon review here), and I must say I thought it was quite good. My seventy something mother read it, too, and liked it.

Finally, Ariel at Bittersweet Life has links to the Christopher Hitchens/Doug Wilson debate at Christianity Today. Good stuff.