Can you believe all there is to think about as we start another year? So much to evaluate and reevaluate–and there’s never time for it all. One of my resolutions for 2007 is to make sure that every new thought that glides across your screen here begins with a question: Does this affirm the greater purpose of what writers do?
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Welcome back to the discussion. We’ve been dissecting this idea of “books for God.” As publishing professionals and hopefuls, we need to know what makes our books Christian. What makes them “godly?” Is it worth discussing how “books for God” might be different from “Christian books” or books for Christians? Your Writers Group has an intentionally broad focus to encourage
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Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Mine was good…apart from the debilitating worry that I’d dug myself into a hole I might never work my way out of. Actually, it wasn’t that bad. I did feel thankful for so many who contacted me with encouragement and constructive response to the Screwtripe thing. Had I known just how many people he
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Many of you have asked for it, but I’m still waiting on that “wilderness” speech from Wangerin. If I’m lucky, maybe I’ll get a book out of it, but in the meantime, let me share what I felt was the most powerful aspect (there are interesting correlations here to Eugene Peterson’s speech, “What Are Writers Good For?”): writers call words
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Let’s face it. Some publishing realities contribute to low quality books too. Start with money. We’ve got to sell books. But that creates a conflict of interest for Christians; the goals of business are diametrically opposed to God’s. No mission statements say “show us the money.” It’s just implied. Which means we’ll publish books we may not fully agree with
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