If your friend came to you and said, “The woman next door is a witch, and her spell is the reason my brother got cancer,” you would not believe him. Would you? We're all civilised nowadays. In 1900, Frank L Baum published a story called “The...
One or two more ideas… The Blood of the Martyrs by Naomi Mitchison.(Canongate Classics) Naomi Mitchison was a socialist and feminist, and not a Christian. She wrote historical novels, largely set in the ancient world, of which the most famous is “The Corn King and the Spring...
What books do Christians like? I could recommend some books of prayers, theology, Christian biography and standard Christian fiction, much of which seems to feature bonnet-wearing American women. Except that this would be difficult, because I don’t read much official Christian literature. (My friends are working...
Welcome to all visitors. My name is Penelope Wallace, and this is my first ever post. So, at the risk of being dull instead of delightful, here are the basics. My qualifications for writing this blog I have no qualifications for writing the blog. My reasons for writing the...