Recently, I met up with the Christian artists at the annual Image/Glen Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Greg Wolfe’s invitation to come and pelt him with questions concerning the new Creative Writing MFA at Seattle Pacific. Sheri, Ellie and I spent the morning driving down and after finding a place to camp, we drove up to St. John’s
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Young geeks, Like me, you’ve probably experienced some singularly unhelpful encouragement somewhere along the line to “quit being so weird.” But whether you’ve received outright rejection or physical coercion, it probably hasn’t worked. Many people think the world doesn’t need our kind. So should we call up Extreme Makeover and beg them to help us fit in? Why didn’t we
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Fellow self-proclaimed geeks, is our alienation unavoidable? Is it a part of our “rite of passage” that every one of us must pass through this stage of only being able to create familiar and obvious expressions? Is it something we simply must pass through in order to realize our intelligence and talent, and stop blaming the Neanderthals’ jealousy and small-mindedness?
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Over the next few days, I’m going to be rephrasing an article by Scott Cairns from Regeneration Quarterly a few years back. He was talking about artists and poets, but he may as well have been talking to us geeks too. You, fellow geek, follow in a line of similarly minded geeks and you have a lot to learn. But
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Maybe you’re my kind of geek, with far too much good stuff on your shelves to read in your lifetime, half-tempted to wring your hands and say, Aw, screw it! i can’t possibly go into another Barnes and Noble or Borders and browse the new books, smell the beautiful smell and crack the perfect crack of the binding, only to
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