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Developing a Taste for Meat

“Christians are actually, to me, anyway, as a Jew, much more interesting in America. And weirdly, much more misunderstood. Evangelical Christians are the most incompetently portrayed group in America, in TV, in fiction, in the news. When Christians say that the media gets them wrong, Christians are absolutely right. Christian life in this country is really horribly documented, and way
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“Art is a reflection…”

…of God’s creativity." –Francis Schaeffer John Fischer writes a wonderful remembrance of Francis Schaeffer and his heart for our audience: Learning to Cry for the Culture

No Different

I’ve been thinking. People are a lot alike. Maybe more alike than we are different. Most of us like eating chocolate ice cream right out of the container, right? But the similarities go deeper. When you were little, did you draw those little pictures of people with big head-bodies and long stick limbs? How did I know, huh? Do you
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Writers Conference Dos and Don’ts

From an editor’s perspective, writers conferences can be a mixed bag. For those of you planning to attend one in the near future, or wondering whether you should, let me offer some dos and don’ts that apply to any writer’s conference you might attend as an aspiring author… Do know your genre. Everything may be expanding into new genres and
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If He Is… Part II

Writers are all called to write different things. But like the excellent Tozer quote Jen M pointed out, instead we copy each other. Ideally, we’d all be writing the thing only we can write. We each have different talents and tasks, and yet we’re all called to truthfulness. And if we lack in content and substance, style and form, our
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