“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” – John Muir I drive Ellie to school and decide to silence the radio. Fund-drive season on the classical station and the news on NPR aren’t as valuable as 8 minutes of silence. Monday comes full of details to sort and
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For over a year now, people have been asking me what I think of The Shack. Mostly, I’m fascinated by how it’s gotten people talking—believers and regular folks, liberals and conservatives, long-time Christians and the disenfranchised. And it hasn’t even gone to mass market paperback yet (update: it now has). As a result of it all, The Shack is the
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Fellow Christian writers and artists, do you consider this a challenge? “Christian art is a knock-off.” Maybe? Maybe it depends on what we consider Christian art. How do we define Christian art? Are the rules different than for regular art? Probably they are, and that’s fair since “Christian” should involve some specific differences about what’s artistic and what’s not. So what does “Christian art”
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It came across our Facebook feeds yesterday: Harper Lee is releasing a new book! It had already been announced and discussed and when I told my wife, she said what we all thought, “Isn’t she dead?” Almost immediately there were suspicions about it all over the feeds. News and opinions went back and forth without much substance to go on.
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This is a great, power-packed and quick-read resource from copyeditor and writer Blake Atwood. And I’m strongly considering giving it a place in my highly-recommended resources. It’s the book I’d like to have written if I wasn’t so busy coaching and editing books. Oh, it’s also FREE. (But you know, tip how you’d want to be tipped.) Check it out!
