The good people of the Christian Fiction Blog (Dee and Marina) were kind enough to bestow an award on Your Writers Group (read about it here) SO…some thanks of my own. God, my pastor, my family, mom and dad, my good friend and ski buddy, the blog-savviest dude I know, Phil “Donahue” Ripperger, my tireless, underappreciated knockout wife, Sheri who
Read more…
"It was a deep, emotional, personal thing. I wanted to give my life to him any way I could. I’d been discussing all that with him for weeks in church. I said, ‘Thy will be done,’ but I also have people dependent on me, so how can I do this? It came to me: Just do it." –Anne Rice in
Read more…
In the movie image above, Martin Luther (played by Joseph Finnes) is arguing with internal voices. Luther is purported to have fought with his warring natures fairly violently at times, even shouting at the devil in public (according to a biographer whose name escapes me). His personal demons are a big reason he’s such an intriguing character. But what I’m
Read more…
This morning I had breakfast with an agent friend and when I got back, I realized I genuinely enjoyed Christian publishing, strange as that may sound. But I hadn’t had nearly enough coffee yet so I made my way over to the ol’ Bunn-o-matic… ———————————– Oh boy. Here we go. Another chance to second-guess your happiness and remember everything that’s
Read more…
Wow. Couldn’t you just hear the sucking sound of the concrete-thinkers slipping out after that last post? Let’s bring it down to earth a bit, shall we? After all, the world is for the doers. My question tonight is: How are we helping people escape? But maybe first we need to ask what are we escaping from and to? On
Read more…
