"It seems that literary devices are changing back to a style which we see employed in many books of the Bible, including the books of Moses and Song of Songs. If any group of people should understand these devices, it should be Christians. And yet we defend a post-enlightenment, western, black-and-white, grid division of literature as the only method of
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Well folks, this is bound to get me into hot water with certain segments of the group again, but this story puts me in a “If-you-don’t-like-it-then-don’t-read-it” sort of mood. I could blame the fact that it’s my birthday and I’m feeling selfish, but really it’s just been a while since I got to read any really good crit mail, and
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Honey, I’m sorry for all the late nights, Attempting in vain to refocus my sights. And clacking away by the laptop’s dull glow, Checking out to recapture my mental tableau… It’s just that in book land, few things compare, With new projects whose prose doesn’t pepper my hair. It’s small victories I use to measure good days, Like when word
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New article by Steve McGarvey here, courtesy of Kelli: New Direction for Christian Publishing? Cheers to Alan Arnold at Westbow who represents many a frustrated editor with these words.
Mary DeMuth is an author we need to know better. I caught up with her in France recently (not really) to chat and ask some questions about her most recent non-fiction release, Building the Christian Family You Never Had. 1. In this book you tell your horrifying childhood story. How difficult was that–writing it, as well as letting it go?
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