An Unexpected Benediction
My friend Ben Palpant recently published a book called Letters from the Mountain. It’s a collection of letters about writing and creativity that he wrote to his daughter Kialynn, also […]
An Unexpected Benediction
My friend Ben Palpant recently published a book called Letters from the Mountain. It’s a collection of letters about writing and creativity that he wrote to his daughter Kialynn, also […]
Don Schaffer Is Not Embarrassed
Don Chaffer is a singer-songwriter (Waterdeep), a composer-lyricist-librettist (Son of a Gun, The Unusual Tale of Mary and Joseph’s Baby), and a professor (Lipscomb University’s School of Music). His stories […]
Grammar, Glamour, Charm, Enchantment
Is there anything so glamorous as grammar? Is there anything so magical? I ask because the three ideas—grammar, glamor, and magic—are connected etymologically. The word grammar has its roots in […]
Alan Noble Says You Are Not Your Own
Alan Noble is Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University and editor-in-chief of Christ and Pop Culture. His new book is You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an […]
A Trick to Make Telling Feel More Like Showing
If you’ve spent more than about half an hour with a writing instructor, you’ve probably heard that old chestnut, “Show, don’t tell.” It’s not terrible advice, but it’s incomplete advice. […]
Rachel Donahue On Place and Poetry
After years overseas, poet Rachel Donahue settled into life on a property that had been in her husband’s family for generations. Paying attention to that piece of land transformed her […]
My Earliest Literary Experience
Last week in my fiction workshop, one of the writers remarked in her story, “there was joy in Mudville.” Most of the other writers didn’t know what she was talking […]
Ben Palpant Writes Letters from the Mountain
Ben Palpant is a poet, memoirist, novelist, and writer of nonfiction. His new book, Letters from the Mountain, is a collection of letters to his daughter about writing, creativity, paying attention, and […]
Mercurial, Jovial, Loony: Words from Planets
There are nine planets in our solar system. Or is it eight? I think we’re back up to nine. Doesn’t matter. The ancients had seven “planets.” I put “planets” in […]
Ashley Hales Invites You Into a Spacious Life
Ashley Hales is a writer, a speaker, and the host of the Finding Holy Podcast. Her new book is A Spacious Life: Trading Hustle and Hurry for the Goodness of Limits. In this episode, […]