It’s never going to happen. This revolution. It’s just not. It’s always going to be just over the horizon, out of reach, beyond the next bend in the road. Hiding in the shadowlands. Lingering in the space between dreaming and waking. Our world can’t handle it. The industry will never accept it. The truth is, no one wants to face
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“The reader is not wrong for wanting to know what the author is like. Just look at the Bible—the ultimate act of revelation through the word, or the Word.” “Writing as a Way of Seeing” Yesterday, Nathan Bierma, who does the Books and Culture weblog over at Christianity Today, compiled many sources related to the idea I posted here yesterday
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‘”Right and wrong did not much interest him, but good and evil did. … Orwell remarked that [Graham] Greene seemed to share the idea, ”which has been floating around since Baudelaire, that there is something rather distingué in being damned.”’ What could possibly be distinguished about being damned? This little speculation by Orwell forms the title for the cover story
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I come from California where I learned to love the beach at an early age. I went to school in Santa Barbara and learned to surf on a longboard in Santa Monica. So I have an interesting way of speaking. It tends to color my world in this sea-green tinge, so I apologize if I’m not being specific enough about
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On a whim, I typed in “Christian writing revolution” on Mamma.com and found “The History Guide”: Lectures on Ancient and Medieval European History, Lecture 15 “Christianity as a Cultural Revolution” It is a story of how Christianity grew in the early centuries, largely through monks who supported each other in meditative, creative communities. Sound familiar? Here’s a quick overview: *
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