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Books & Reading, Mother's Education
RT 01: Observing Holy-Days with Eusebius

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]oday’s AfterCast episode is not a blog post I’m reading aloud. Instead, it’s my very first Reading Thoughts episode. This is where I pull out a bit from a book I’m reading and discuss it. I had fun recording it, and I hope you have fun listening. Today’s book: Eusebius, The Church History (translated by Paul Maier) This is a book I’ve been reading with E-Age-Fourteen for our Bible/Church History category and it is just fantastic. It reminds me a lot of Continue Reading…
February 2, 2017
Books & Reading, Other Thoughts
Thoughtworthy: AfterCast is Now Live, Book Talk, and MORE!

:: 1 :: If you haven’t noticed, AfterCast is now live! This has been so much fun. And thank you all for already putting it on the iTunes charts. That was certainly encouraging! This week, I’m releasing three episodes, just to get it going. So I did Tuesday and Thursday so far this week, and there will be another tomorrow on Saturday. After that, it’ll be once a week on Thursdays. Speaking of charts, it is always nice to play Continue Reading…
January 6, 2017
Other Thoughts
Welcome to AfterCast! (Episode 00)

Today’s the day! Last year, I fell in love with podcasting. (This was no surprise considering that I toyed with a career goal of being in radio when I was in college.) It was not a giant leap for me to decide that one of the special things I could do this year as I begin my twelfth year of blogging was add an audio component. And that’s what AfterCast is — an audio companion to this blog. You’ll have Continue Reading…
January 3, 2017
Educational Philosophy
Are Narration and Discussion Interchangeable?

It’s interesting, this question. I’ve been asking it of myself for a long time now — a year or two, at least. It all started when I ran across someone — we’ll call her Mary — who told me that she didn’t require narration because her child liked to jump straight to discussion, and he discussed with such facility that it was obvious that he comprehended what he had read. I had mixed thoughts about this at the time. On Continue Reading…
March 2, 2016