History, Real Life, and Faith
Merry Christmas to all. My family is spending this week in a myriad of activities. As members of a Lutheran Church choir, we’ll be singing the wonderful music of Christmas–in four-part harmony. We sang a variety of songs on Sunday night at the annual Christmas concert. I’ve been playing my clarinet all season long for our Wednesday night Advent services…
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Happily Ever After: Defending Truth In A Pioneer Christmas Collection, Shannon McNear portrays a surprising romance between a militiaman loyal to the Crown hiding after a battle in which his side lost, and a young woman patriot in charge of her siblings when her father goes to fight in Defending Truth. “People were all just struggling to live their lives,…
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Happily Ever After: A Badlands Christmas As part of A Pioneer Christmas Collection, Marcia Gruver takes us to sophisticated 1885 New York City in A Badlands Christmas, though we don’t stay there long. Inspired by the adventures of Theodore Roosevelt in the town of Medora, A Badlands Christmas shows the contrasts between festive scenes in the city and a Christmas spent in a…
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Did the folks in The Gold Rush Christmas live happily ever after? In the Pioneer Christmas Collection story, twins Samantha and Peter Harris journey to Skagway, Alaska at the height of The Yukon Gold Rush in search of their missing missionary father. Joined on the trip by the boy next door, Miles Parker who is determined to win Samantha’s heart,…
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Can a Silent Night lead to a happily ever after life? Before writing for A Pioneer Christmas Collection, Anna Urquhart had seldom heard of pioneers traveling by water and examined the opening of the Erie Canal in 1830’s which led to settlements in Michigan Territory. A Silent Night actually begins in Edinburgh, Scotland and follows the challenges of making a…
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Don’t you love and “they lived happily ever after” stories? Not because it’s reality, but because in our complicated cruel world, it’s lovely to drift away and enjoy a story that ends happily. We all need a little hope, if not magic, somedays! Knowing true love will at least be met is part of the draw of romance novellas, and…
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