The current state of publishing has me thinking about the future. It’s hard not to these days. Everywhere you look there’s another announcement of the electronic squashing print. I imagine this big trash-can-head robot stomping books into the mud and I have to set down my quill and cry a little into my ink-stained tea mug. But soon
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Be sure to check out Mary DeMuth's Breakpoint article, "Should Christ-followers Read Fiction?" She gives a great round up of the multiple benefits, especially useful for anyone facing the age-old objections from well-meaning religious-types. http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=11853
This post is made from recycled, post-consumer content. But love has pitched her mansion in the place of excrement; For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent. –William Butler Yeats You know those maps in the back of your Bible? They were mysterious treasure maps to me as a kid. I’d flip through all the places
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Christianity Today MoviesBiblical perspectives on contemporary cinemaFriday, December 05, 2008 Out of Their Minds? A few years ago, Buzz McLaughlin and Aaron Wiederspahn formed a film production company—Either/Or Films, named for a book by Soren Kierkegaard—for "the purpose of developing and creating films of beauty and artistic excellence that provoke the public to engage with the providential mystery of grace."
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It’s hard to think of a book as significant for religious publishing in recent times as The Shack. I believe a good portion of its success comes from the spiritual hunger that the public face of Christianity has forced so many believers to accept and endure. Many people believe the true cause of Christ and his love has been relegated
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