Joanne Spoelstra

Aug 28, 2023 | christiancourier.ca | Adele Gallogly |Jessica Lum |Joanne Spoelstra |Cathy Smith

I Am A TornadoDrew BeckmeyerAtheneum Books for Young Readers, 2023“Clearly as a funnel cloud touching down on the flat prairie horizon, I can see what is coming next. Toddlers control the weather, and it is time to take over.”Teresa Wong, “Tantrum Series” I happened to read these words in the essay collection Good Mom on Paper just a few days after encountering Drew Beckmeyer’s amusing and clever new children’s book.

Apr 5, 2023 | christiancourier.ca | Heidi Vander Slikke |Emily Wierenga |Brian Walsh |Joanne Spoelstra

“Wait ‘til your father gets home!” How many times did my miscreant behaviour provoke those words from my mother’s lips? Make no mistake – Ma had a penchant for law and order and she was quite capable of meting out immediate discipline. But this was her trump card for especially exasperating infractions. Did she realize how that single sentence would strike remorse into my heart? First of all, if she wasn’t willing to deal with me herself, I knew I had really stepped over the line. Not good.

Mar 15, 2023 | christiancourier.ca | Paul Verhoef |Katie Munnik |Joanne Spoelstra |Curt Gesch

A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and DesignersEthan J. Brue, Derek C. Schuurman, Steven H. VanderLeestIVP Academic, 2022. In the mid-90s, students studying engineering at Dordt College (now Dordt University) took three semesters of physics using a textbook authored by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker.