Author Archives: Lanier

Living with Books

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
-Henry Ward Beecher
They are piled artfully on the desk. They mount to the lampshade on the bedside table. They wobble in stacks as precarious as a loose boulder jutting over a snowy mountainscape.
Oh, yes. And they fill the bookshelves.
What [...]

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In March…

WPA Poster #98507722 from the Library of Congress
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Single-Minded, Part Four

Here is the final installment in our Single-Minded series–for the present! Thanks to your wonderful outpouring we’ll be resuming it in April, after our jam-packed March of Books. We have many more fabulous ’singleness sketches’ queued up, and I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone of you who has joined in and shared [...]

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Single-Minded, Part Three

It has been so exciting to see the responses come in to our query about how you singles are investing your time. Not to mention tremendously encouraging to get a sampling of all the manifold ways you are pouring your hearts and lives into the Kingdom! Your generosity in sharing has been overwhelming–so much so [...]

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Single-Minded, Part Two

Last week I asked you singles to weigh in on what your days look like and what you’re doing with this season of your lives, to be compiled into a post at the end of this month. But the response we received was just too good to confine to one piece! Here’s a first sampling, [...]

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