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Intersection Column | Children are Our Heritage
by DiAnn Mills Children are our world’s most precious heritage. They deserve love, nurturing, protection, medical aid, education, and...

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Sep 22, 20253 min read


Intersection Column | A Regency Rom-Com
by Mollie Rushmeyer The Rules of Falling for You , a whimsical contemporary rom-com about a Jane Austen-obsessed podcaster who attends...

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Sep 17, 20254 min read


Intersection Column | Researching for a Novel
How research can guide and change the book you have in your head by Mary Connealy When I started out to write the Golden State Treasure...

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Sep 15, 20254 min read


Intersection Column | Blouses, Pants, and Professor Pendleton
by Michelle Griep A shopping trip isn’t usually where I find inspiration, but there was this one time— Me: ( brings mother to petite...

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Sep 8, 20254 min read


Intersection Column | Shadow Country
by Cheryl Grey Bostrom My four younger siblings and I were weaned on shadows, then grew up with them in the area around our little town...

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Aug 28, 20253 min read


Intersection Column | Uncovering Secrets
by Michelle Shocklee Secrets. We all have them. During World War II, there were so many secrets kept, I imagine some still have yet to...

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Aug 25, 20254 min read


Intersection Column | A Book for the Birds
by Amanda Cox I’ve always enjoyed the outdoors, whether backpacking in the Smoky Mountains or strolling around my own backyard. Nature...

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Aug 18, 20255 min read


Intersection Column | When Fact and Fiction Collide
by Katie Powner I’ve been a foster parent for almost ten years, and it would be an understatement to tell you it’s been a life-changing...

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Aug 11, 20253 min read


Intersection Column | Read Dangerously
by Roseanna M. White When I learned about the now-infamous book burnings of 1933 in Germany, I was partly horrified and partly...

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Jul 28, 20254 min read


Intersection Column | The Best-Laid Plans
by Jennifer L. Wright Last Light Over Galveston wasn’t a book I had planned on writing. I had actually been working on another book...

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Jul 21, 20254 min read


Intersection Column | Misty Water-Colored Memories
by Jerry B. Jenkins When my wife’s and my eldest child, Dallas, was born, I invested a moment gazing into a mirror in the labor room,...

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Jul 14, 20254 min read


Intersection Column | The Silliest Sheep
by Dana Mentink The Lord watches over His sheep, even the silliest one that meanders over hill and dale, completely oblivious to their...

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Jun 30, 20254 min read


Intersection Column | Chronic Peace
by Angela Carlisle I have a lot in common with Allye, the heroine of Shadowed Witness . We both love tea, knitting, and caring for the...

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Jun 23, 20254 min read


Intersection Column | When a Dream Won’t Die
by Sara Brunsvold “Have you ever had something you’ve always wanted to do? An idea that wouldn’t leave you alone? An experience you...

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Jun 16, 20254 min read


Intersection Column | Connecting Through History
What resilient women and failed rebellions can teach us about each other by Christine Hill Suntz On January 1, 2021, I made a...

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Jun 9, 20255 min read


Intersection Column | A Fish Out of Water
by Shelley Shepard Gray I do love when a story revolves around two people from completely different worlds. It’s a common storyline in...

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May 26, 20254 min read


Going and Coming
by Robin Jones Gunn Norman Rockwell’s side-by-side painting entitled Going and Coming reminds me of childhood trips to the beach. The...

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May 21, 20254 min read


Sick of the Waiting
by Shannon Sue Dunlap “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” (Proverbs 13:12, NIV) Forty...

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May 20, 20254 min read


Intersection Column | How Readers Change Writers
by Jane Kirkpatrick “I have your next story!” She stood in line at the Woodland, Washington’s Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens to have me...

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May 19, 20254 min read


Intersection Column | Baby Goats and Fresh Ideas
by Liz Johnson I booked the excursion for my niece. At least that’s what I thought as my family and I planned our trip to Prince Edward...

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May 12, 20255 min read
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