Knowledge Is Power. France Is Bacon.
Last week my friend and nemesis John Barber posted a very funny story that first appeared on Reddit ten years ago, posted by a Lard_Baron in response to the question, […]
Knowledge Is Power. France Is Bacon.
Last week my friend and nemesis John Barber posted a very funny story that first appeared on Reddit ten years ago, posted by a Lard_Baron in response to the question, […]
Season 3, Episode 17: Lancia Smith Serves the Whole Writer
Lancia Smith is the founder of Cultivating, a quarterly online magazine, and the Cultivating Project, a nurtured community of writers and artists committed to pursuing spiritual maturity and creative excellence. Lancia […]
Ordinary and Clichéd: Not the Same Thing
Last week my son William sent me a link to this conversation between George Saunders (whom I have mentioned several times in the last couple of months) and Jason Isbell, one of […]
Season 3, Episode 17: Janna Barber on the Cycles of Writing and Faith
Janna Barber is a blogger, poet, and memoirist. Her most recent book is Hidden in Shadow: Tales of Grief, Lamentation, and Faith. This memoir is one woman’s honest reckoning with the […]
Objectivity and Subjectivity
Objectivity and subjectivity are terms that get used in so many different ways and with so many different agendas that one is tempted to give up on them. But I […]
Season 3, Episode 16: Steven Roach Invites You to Be Creative
Stephen Roach is a poet, musician, speaker, and creative coach. He hosts the Makers and Mystics podcast and is the founder of The Breath and the Clay, a creative arts movement. His latest book, […]
Hiking. Sauntering. Meandering. Strolling.
Yesterday I found out that my wife and I will be hiking Half Dome in Yosemite National Park later this summer. (Pray for us in the hour of our need.) […]
Season 3, Episode 15: Rachel Pieh Jones Bears Witness
Rachel Pieh Jones has been living and writing in the Horn of Africa for the last eighteen years. Her new memoir is Pillars: How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus. In this […]
We’re All Unreliable Narrators
In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders discusses “a particular Russian form of unreliable narration called skaz.” He cites the critic Robert Maguire, who writes that […]
Season 3, Episode 14: Doug McKelvey on Death, Grief, and Hope
Every Moment Holy, Volume II is a book of liturgies and prayers for seasons of dying and grieving. Doug McKelvey spent two years in dialogue with bereaved and dying readers as […]