There are certainly some interesting reasons we don’t see higher quality writing from Christian writers. We tend to be fairly separate–exclusive in our lingo, churches, and bookstores. We say we’re meant to be set apart, and that makes us inbred. No wonder so many our of books seem to have snaggle teeth and play the banjo. We tend to harbor
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I’m placing this post in the mission statement category because it’s one that doesn’t come along every day. Maybe it’s Glenn Gould’s piano playing in the background. Maybe it’s the frustrating day I had. Maybe it’s the setting sun, the passing summer, the culminating of all this thinking I’ve been doing in regards to the clash of the real and
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Some good controversy around this idea of propaganda. The idea I was getting at was that all writing to some degree is propaganda in the broadest sense, meant to persuade and intended to evoke mental and emotional shifts through convincing communication. Orwellian undertones aside, I’m not willing to say either that all education is or is not propaganda (i.e. persuasion),
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I feel like I’ve said much of this before, but it probably bears repeating. I know I’ve made the claim before that you can’t have a good story without some measure of controversy, however minute. Controversy is the provocative interest that keeps people reading. Contrast, conflict: these things get at the essential provocation of the battle within each of us.
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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.
