In Instagram photos, the Petersiks’ friendly grins seemed to be hardening into tragicomic Greek masks. But they had recently started to chafe under the microscope. Readers of YHL, as it’s known to their millions of fans, knew an absurd amount about the Petersiks’ lives, including the brand of shampoo the couple shares (Burt’s Bees) and the fact that Sherry owns only one bra.įor years, the Petersiks had appeared to delight in the oversharing, letting no vacation, birthday, or parenting milestone go un-blogged. During those nearly 3,000 posts, they catalogued kitchen renovations, decorating projects, moves to three different houses, and the births of both their children. on almost every weekday for the past seven years, Sherry and John Petersik had uploaded a chatty, photo-laden post to their do-it-yourself home-décor blog, Young House Love. on a Thursday in September 2014.Īt precisely 10 a.m. The rebellion began a little after 10 a.m.
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If loved ones aren’t our priority or chaos is running our lives, then we may need help remembering what our homes are meant for. Make Room for What you Love by Melissa MichaelsĮven when our homes look peaceful, clean, and serene they may betray what’s really going on in the family life. Some great books I use to help with those decisions are:Ĭut the Clutter and Stow the Stuff edited by Lori Baird If we tackle those reasons and keep them at bay, we’ll be able to say goodbye to things that weigh us down. Too often there are emotional or obligatory reasons why we believe we must keep something. I think the key to making a successful purge of belongings is to truly assess if you will ever need, use, love or wear an item. Not long ago I shared a post with a peaceful guide to a house purge. See my Disclosures page and thank you! (Further disclosure – we are blessed that Dr. Howard is a friend of ours!) Please note – this post contains affiliate links, which allows me to make a small commission from your purchase via the link without extra cost to you. With you for various categories that invoke peace… The time I reach for books to inspire me to create a peaceful home Take stock of what is and isn’t working in our lives, and what habits are Something about winter makes me want to curl up with more In this episode Bart discusses what we can know about early Christian martyrdom - what sources of information we have and whether they are reliable, issues never even broached by the apologists who raise the issue in the first place. In this episode we consider this claim by examining its unquestioned assumption: is it actually *true* that the apostles were all martyred for their faith? How do we know? How *could* we know? In fact, what do we know about martyrdom within Christianity at all in the first two centuries? How often did it occur? And were Christians martyred for saying that Jesus was raised from the dead? Therefore the disciples really were witnesses to the resurrection. Here it is: What good is it to say that the autographs (i.e. Someone may die for the truth, but who would die for a lie? And ALL of them? That seems completely implausible. In Misquoting Jesus, the New York Times bestseller subtitled The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, author Bart Ehrman fires a shot meant to sink the ship of any Christian who thinks the New Testament documents can be trusted. One of the claims consistently made by Christian apologists is that the apostles who declared that they themselves had seen Jesus after he had been raised from the dead MUST have been telling the truth - since they all died for their belief. Misquoting Jesus - James a Gray Professor of Religious Studies Bart D Ehrman 2010-10 Traditional Chinese edition of Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, the book that critiques and challenges the Bible as it is scribed with ample evidence. The novel began as a " thought experiment" for Harkness, who had previously only published works of historical non-fiction. Comparisons were made between other popular fantasy series, namely Twilight and Harry Potter. It was praised for its intelligence and the mixture of history and fantasy, although some critics felt the plot was trite and the pacing was slow. The book received mostly positive feedback from literary critics. The novel has been translated into more than 36 languages. It has since been released in paperback and also as an ebook. It follows Diana Bishop, a history of science professor at Yale University, as she embraces her magical blood after finding a long-thought-lost manuscript and engages in a forbidden romance with a charming vampire, Matthew Clairmont.Ī Discovery of Witches was first published in hardcover on February 8, 2011, by Penguin Books, becoming a New York Times Best Seller upon its release. Contemporary fantasy, romance, vampire, witchcraft, alchemyĪ Discovery of Witches is a 2011 historical-fantasy novel and the debut novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness. |