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For Holy Week
By Bethany Kilcrease If anyone is still looking for some good devotional reading for Holy Week and beyond, let me introduce you to a hidden gem recently written by a Lutheran woman. I have been reading and re-reading Carolyn Brinkley’s Bearing the Cross: Devotions on Albrecht Dürer’s Small Passion (CPH, 2012) for several years now and heartily recommend it to anyone. Deaconess Brinkley uses the artist Albrecht Dürer’s series of woodcut images called the Small Passion (1511) as the basis for thirty-four short devotions. As implied by the title Small Passion, Dürer’s extremely detailed woodcuts portray scenes Christ’s Passion, although Dürer and Brinkley also contextualize the Passion narrative with images…
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Review of The Story Bible: 130 Stories of God’s Love, edited by Edward A. Engelbrecht and Gail E. Pawlitz
By Bethany Kilcrease and Tabitha Moldenhauer The Story Bible came out in 2011, which is when we purchased it for our children, then ages 6 and 4. It’s a big book. As children’s books go, really big and heavy. Not that that’s a negative feature. It’s excellent for pressing leaves for Autumn crafts (I just discovered some very old maple leaves upon opening it today). It contains 130 Bible accounts from the Old and New Testaments, presented in a readable format for children without losing meaning. A guide for parents and teachers is included that offers useful strategies for reading the stories with children in different age ranges. There…
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Review of Our Faith by Ruth Meyer
By Bethany Kilcrease and Tabitha Moldenhauer I love books. And now that I have a daughter, I have an excuse to purchase books from a whole new genre: children’s books. CPH is currently reaping the benefits of my newest interest. One of the books I recently purchased is Ruth Meyer’s Our Faith from A to Z. This book teaches children the Christian faith by going through the alphabet and explaining an aspect of Lutheranism for each letter. For example, A is for Apostles’ Creed, B is for Baptism, C is for Catechism, D is for Doctrine, etc. Each letter has a short didactic poem like “A is for Apostles’ Creed,…
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Children’s Book Review- God Makes Me His Child in Baptism
By Bethany Kilcrease God Makes Me His Child In Baptism After buying Whisper, Whisper: Learning about Church for my daughter’s first baptismal birthday, I thought it would also be appropriate to round out the gift with something from Concordia Publishing House about baptism. A quick search of the website led me to God Makes Me His Child by Janet Wittenback. Wittenback’s original text was published in 1968. You can see the original cover here (I would have expected something a little more groovy given the year of publication). It was then revised and republished with some now rather dated looking illustrations in 1985. The current 2007 edition has been re-illustrated…
