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    Recently,  An Afternoon's Dictation  (Greenebaum), reached #1 on the Amazon bestseller list of books in ecumenism Christian theology, #10 in faith and spirituality. and #66 in Christian Faith. The book has been on bestseller lists many times.  Book Description:  In 1999 Steven Greenebaum felt he'd hit the wall. Fifty years old, he could not make sense of his life or the world around him. For several months he angrily demanded answers from God, if God were there. One afternoon, an inner voice told him to get a pen and paper and write. Steven then took dictation - three pages, not of commandments but guidance for leading a meaningful life.   An Afternoon's Dictation  grapples with, organizes, and deeply explores the revelations Steven received and then studied for over ten years. His sharing is NOT offered as the only possible way to understand it the dictation. It is offered, rather, as a start. The book's sections include deep explorations int...

  Today's tip for parents from two talented teachers comes from  365 Teacher Secrets for Parents  by Cindy McKinley Alder and Patti Trombly.                                                             #118 DRTA: Directed Reading-Thinking Activity   Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words! ~A Tree Grows in Brooklyn               Directed Reading Thinking Activity is a comprehension strategy that focuses on helping children ask questions about the text and make predictions before reading. This technique encourages students to be active readers and gives them a purpose for reading. It also helps them monitor their understanding of the text as they are reading. In this strategy, the parent is involved. When your child has an informationa...

  On this day in 1908, Oskar Schindler was born — a man whose courage didn’t announce itself with speeches, but with choices. He stepped into history not because he was perfect, but because he refused to look away. In a world collapsing into cruelty, he used his position, his privilege, and eventually his entire fortune to save more than a thousand lives. His story reminds us that moral clarity rarely arrives fully formed. Sometimes it grows in the cracks of our failures, our compromises, our unexpected awakenings. Schindler didn’t start as a hero. But he became one when it mattered most. May we all have the courage to choose humanity when the cost is high. image and some verbiage AI-produced post inspired by  Good Blood  by Irit Schaffer, which recently reached #238 on Amazon in theater biographies. Book Description: When she was a child, her father said he had "good blood" and that is why he and his wife survived and healed from the Holocaust. The author searched for...