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Thank you to @thy_lyre for this great review of Missy’s new book!

@nerdschooling Honored. A perk: we promise not to have a deceptively cute green bird send you threatening emails if you skip a day...

Some of my friends are learning new languages and finishing their novels during this time and isolation... I'm rereading Harry Potter and re- listening to every episode of @Center_For_Lit Bibliofiles 🤷‍♀️

"Every redemptive story has a redeemer. This should go without saying — should. So often, worthwhile stories are interpreted in the shallows where they seem to satisfy modern affinities for personal affirmation. Their worthy depths wait, unsounded." ow.ly/hbdI50zxXBe

"We need external forces to do what is right, and we become rebellious and angry when we don’t get our way. Our hearts are both deadened and full of hatred. The solution? The solution is the same solution it’s been since the dawn of time..." @kristenrudd ow.ly/TQHj50zq6b5

"He wants what every one of us wants—whether we know it or not—both in this modern age and every age before: He wants to be human, and he wants to go home to his father’s kingdom." My thoughts on "The Frog Prince," hot off the presses at @Center_For_Lit. centerforlit.com/blog-roll/2020…

Coming May 10 from @center_for_lit. In this memoir, Missy Andrews reflects on over 25 years of homeschooling. She recalls her devastation upon confusing success with identity, and the transformative grace she found in the midst of failure. bitly.com/mydivinecomedy #ad

"Our bodies are so fragile, so gross, and so absurd. They are also something we all have in common, leveling the playing field." ow.ly/ZuC650zjFdt

Coming May 10, 2020: Missy Andrews reflects on over 25 years of homeschooling, relying on the Great Books as a great cloud of witnesses to demonstrate the universal nature of a homeschooling mother’s suffering and the scandalous Gospel available to us all. centerforlit.com/catalogue/2020…

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@nerdschooling Oh! ❤️ Probably our favorite episode of all time.

@Center_For_Lit I was searching through the backlog of episodes looking for something to listen to as I ran errands and realize that I somehow MISSED THE EPISODE WITH GARY D. SCHMIDT!!! What a lovely surprise. ♥️🤓

"We cannot lay down our pursuit of personal glorification and hear the Author’s voice aright. But then, education, Christian or otherwise, is not about getting it right. It is about learning to recognize how very wrong we are." ow.ly/7h2250yvNWG

"Donne’s penitence, grief, and suffering remain certain as he faces the contradictory desires and realities of his own person in a standoff with the self from which he cannot deliver himself, but only await deliverance." ow.ly/yJE350yuOCE

@kristenrudd @nche1984 Go bug them!! You should know by now they need help making social plans.

@Center_For_Lit @nche1984 UM. HELLO.

We are thrilled to be returning to @nche1984!

Reading #LittleDorrit for the @Center_For_Lit #Penguinsocietybookclub I'm only on chapter 3 and I already believe that Mrs Clennam is going to be one of my favorite characters to hate. 🤷‍♀️

@MatthewShedd7 @nerdschooling @ereneeandrews

Very excited for @Center_For_Lit Pelican Book Club choices for 2020. All titles that have been on my TBR or that I've never even thought to put on my TBR. @ereneeandrews

2020 is going to be full of some great Pelican Society discussions! 🎉

"I want to be the kind of person who reads War and Peace, not the person who reads Twilight...But if one book title qualifies my identity...there’s the rub." ow.ly/PXmr50y6mCe

"Do we reject a work of art based on its philosophical or ethical message while ignoring its artistic merits altogether? Do non-literary concerns sometimes shoulder their way into our literary decision-making?" ow.ly/hiU550xUwKL

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. —Albert Einstein