This summer marks the Christian Women Readers Club’s fourth anniversary! To celebrate, they’re hosting a summer reading challenge just like your local library. And, just like the library, there will be LOTS of prizes for our participants! Gift cards, books, and more. All readers who participate and SIGN UP will be entered into the grand prize drawing, a Kindle Paperwhite …
Ancient Words, Ancient Bibles
What image comes to mind when I say “book”? If you’re like most people, you think of separate pages bound together, with a cover. Known as the “codex,” this has been the most common form of a book for the past two millennia. The codex is a book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar …
Sold into Freedom is in Audiobook!
Sold into Freedom is now available in audiobook! You can find it in Audible, as well as many other online stores and library services. Join Tia as she resists the invading soldiers. Take a stand with Quin against the selfish ambition of the praetor. Listen to Paulos’s gentle advice when all seems lost. Audible || iTunes …
A Mother’s Sacrifice, Part 3
The final installment of chapter 1. Let me know what you think in the comments, and be sure to enter the giveaway! Through the open roof of the main room’s middle section, Kebi fixed her gaze on the unmoving clouds. This birth had not been as easy as Aaron’s, and the sun had traveled more than three-quarters of its way …
A Mother’s Sacrifice, Part 2
As promised, here is the second portion of chapter one. Final installment next week! “Shhh, little one.” Kebi called Miriam over with open arms. “It’s all right. Abba can find them—”“No!” she shouted, pulling away. “Shifra’s husband said the king’s guards took them as the sun rose. Carried them to the villa in chariots.”Another contraction stole Kebi’s voice, but her …
Meet Jochebed
So I went AWOL last month. I didn’t intend to; real life interfered. My last two kids are graduating in two weeks. One turned 18 in April and the other one hits legal adulthood tomorrow. There was prom, with dresses and hemming and shoes and matching bow ties. My mom’s memory is getting much worse and she frequently thinks I …
What do Thyatira, Tyre, and Tiberius have in common?
A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul. When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and …
March Giveaway
I’m going to be hosting a giveaway each month this year. They will start on a Monday at 10 am EST and end the following Friday at 10 am. Winner will be announced the next Monday at 10 am. This month I’m giving away an paperback set of the “Journey to Canaan” trilogy: In the Shadow of Sinai, By the …
“If you must break the law, do it to seize power.”
The above words were uttered by Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome for just one year before being assassinated. His very name has become a synonym for “ruler” or “king.” Rome had many levels and types of rulers, depending on location and purpose. The duoviri, Latin for “two men” and known in English as the duumvirs were the highest joint magistrates of the cities and …
Hail, Britannia!
Our heroine, Tia, comes from a tribe known as the Dumnonii, in Britannia. Britannia is a Latinization of the native Brittonic word for the island, Pritanni. (In Freedom, I use Britannia for both the Latin and Brittonic name for simplicity’s sake.) For the Romans, Britannia was a hugely attractive target. This was a land rich in metals (especially iron, tin, …