Want to Give Good Feedback? Stop Giving Advice.
In writing classes, workshops, critique groups, and similar gatherings of writers, the giving and receiving of feedback is one of the most valuable things that happens. It is also one […]
Want to Give Good Feedback? Stop Giving Advice.
In writing classes, workshops, critique groups, and similar gatherings of writers, the giving and receiving of feedback is one of the most valuable things that happens. It is also one […]
Season 3, Episode 9: Kristin Kobes Du Mez on Jesus and John Wayne
Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a history professor at Calvin University and the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. In this week’s […]
Leave Room for Grace
In last week’s Writing with Caspian lecture/discussion, we got on the subject of “leaving room for grace” in your writing. In the class forums a couple of people had questions […]
Season 3, Episode 8: Poet Ben Myers Believes in Re-Incarnation
In this week’s episode of The Habit Podcast, I talk with Benjamin P. Myers, former Poet Laureate of Oklahoma and author of A Poetics of Orthodoxy: Christian Truth as Aesthetic Foundation, and Black Sunday. […]
Keeping a Notebook + Psalms of Lament
I’ve been reading two excellent books about writing. One is George Saunders’s A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, […]
Special Episode of The Habit Podcast: Writing Psalms of Lament
A couple of weeks ago, theologian, seminary professor, and author David O. Taylor proposed a special episode of The Habit Podcast devoted to the writing of psalms of lament. He wrote, I […]
What Are You Good At?
One of my favorite things about teaching writing is being able to say to another writer, “You’re good at this. Did you know it?” Sometimes it’s obvious to me that […]
S3: Ep6: Jen Pollock Michel on The Habit of Faith
It’s release day for Jen Pollock Michel‘s, new book, A Habit Called Faith: 40 Days in the Bible to Find and Follow Jesus. In this week’s episode of The Habit Podcast, Jen and I discuss […]
Time to Start Those Valentine Love Letters and Poems
It’s February 9, the last Tuesday before Valentine’s Day, which means it’s time for my fourth-annual Tuesday letter about love letters and poems. In 2018, 2019, and 2020, I ended […]
S3: Ep5: Tish Harrison Warren Isn’t Afraid to Be Vulnerable
Tish Harrison Warren’s new book is Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep. In this week’s episode of The Habit Podcast, I speak with Tish Harrison Warren about […]