I’ve been thinking today about what I have to say to the person who’s looking for inspiration, encouragement from their struggles, understanding in their pain. I’ve got to become versed in human struggle to have lasting impact and value. That’s the scary truth. This course I’m on requires untold sacrifice. It’s a terrifying, yet ultimately wonderful thing. I believe the
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The head of my department at Focus—V.P. of “Global Resource Development”—likes to use the above saying when faced with the idea that we should write “subversive evangelical fiction.” “Well, I don’t know. Can a Christian baker bake Christian bread?” (Of course, now that they added “Global” to our department name, he’s lost a lot of credibility wearing around that Buzz
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Sigh. This one hurts. Just so you know, tonight it’s all hanging out. “I think we ought to only read the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you
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Welcome back. Tonight we’ll conclude our discussion with the uncommonly talented and humble Siri Mitchell, author of 3 up-coming novels, all of which concern stretching a few CBA taboos in their aim to faithfully present the truth of her characters’ lives. (But I’d still like her even if she wasn’t a fellow revolutionary.) Okay. So if I can aim for
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Tonight we have Siri Mitchell, an amazingly gifted writer who you’ll be hearing a lot more about in the coming months. She’s about to enter the fray with a handful of deceptively benign fiction novels (my description, not hers), so I asked her to tell us a little about her journey and how she came to CBA land. Siri is
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