It’s been nearly a decade since anything has topped out on my list of ‘favorite albums’ that wasn’t whatever the innocence mission had just released. I don’t think I even paused to realize this until Andrew Peterson broke into the winner’s circle a few months ago with his 2005 recording, The Far Country, and spun…
Single-Minded, Part Six
by Lanier on April 30, 2010 in Singleness & Trust
Thank you to all who have contributed to our Single-Minded series! It has been a joy to see the many ways in which God has been working in the lives of young women who are wholly devoted to Him. You have been an active part in ‘spurring one another on to love and good works’,…
Single-Minded, Part Five
by Lanier on April 28, 2010 in Singleness & Trust
Way back in February we asked our unmarried ladies some questions: What are you doing with your single days? How are you focusing on the Lord and your relationship with Him? How are you maintaining your pursuit of the Main Thing in the midst of desire? In what ways have you learned contentment? What wonderful…

A Hymn for Good Friday
by Lanier on April 2, 2010 in Singleness & Trust
Stricken, smitten, and afflicted, See Him dying on the tree! ’Tis the Christ by man rejected; Yes, my soul, ’tis He, ’tis He! ’Tis the long expected prophet, David’s Son, yet David’s Lord; Proofs I see sufficient of it: ’Tis a true and faithful Word. Tell me, ye who hear Him groaning, Was there ever…

Our Mutual Friend
by Lanier on March 24, 2010 in Books & Music
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens is one of those books that was just meant to be read aloud. Literally. Dickens considered himself the novelist of the common man and his works were originally published in the relatively inexpensive serialized form. I heard that in nineteenth century England, whole neighborhoods would go in together to…

Living with Books
by Lanier on March 15, 2010 in Books & Music
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…

In March…
by Lanier on March 8, 2010 in Books & Music
WPA Poster #98507722 from the Library of Congress click here to read some of its history
Single-Minded, Part Four
by Lanier on February 26, 2010 in Singleness & Trust
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…




































