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Set in a frontier world of bonnets and one-room schoolhouses, Love's Enduring Promise follows aheadstrong young teacher named

Missie (January Jones, Bandits), the daughter of Clark and Marty Davis (Dale Midkiff andKatherine Heigl) from previous prairie romance

Love Comes Softly. After Clark injures himself in a woodcutting accident, the family farm is indanger of failing--until a handsome young

stranger (Logan Bartholomew) helps out. Missie finds herself drawn to this man, but the intelligenceand graciousness of young

railroad magnate (Mackenzie Austin, How to Deal) appeals to a side of her that yearns to gobeyond the hills and valleys of her

childhood. What could be romantic froth becomes a quiet, well-paced, and thoughtful love story,thanks to a solid script, capable

performances, and clean direction. Jones is particularly engaging; Missie could have been blandly

virtuous, but Jones draws a rich and

subtle range of emotions out of her scenes. Religious viewers will appreciate the movie'scommitment to wholesome storytelling and

clear moral perspective. Love's Enduring Promise, like Love Comes Softly, is based on a novel byChristian writer Janet Oke, though

Love's Enduring Promise departs more from its source.

Frequent reference to the United States as a young nation tends to obscure the fact that it is alsothe oldest continuing democracy in the

world. More than that, it also tends to obscure what the founders themselves understood to be theancient principles on which they

defended the Revolution. John Adams put the matter trenchantly when he noted that the Revolutionwas complete before a shot was

fired. However, staging a revolution against a nation regarded as being ones own in the deepestsense of shared traditions and

common ancestry was a grave and entirely unsettling matter. Just a few years before 1776, somewho would take a leading part in the

final dissolution of bonds spoke and wrote passionately for reconciliation.

When a life-threatening allergic illness demanded that she eat only organically grown food, writerand professor Mary Swander built a

new life in a former one-room Iowa schoolhouse in the middle of the largest Amish community westof the Mississippi. In this rich and

engaging memoir, which follows the course of a farmers year, she writes from the well-namedFairview School to share the radical

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transformation of her life.

From her perch in rural Kalona, Iowa, Swander discovers new strength and self-reliance along witha community of hardworking and

hospitable neighbors. Raising goats and poultry, participating in barn raisings and auctions,protecting her garden from a plague of

grasshoppers, creating a living crche at Christmastime, all the while laughing at her attempts towrestle with the pioneer challenges

of midwestern winters and summers, she explores what it means to be a lone physical and spiritualhomesteader at the end of the

twentieth century.