Audience Participation Friday: Meta-APF
At the risk of blowing everybody’s mind, the topic for Audience Participation Friday this week is Audience Participation Friday. I realize this is more postmodern than what you’re accustomed to […]
Flannery, Milton, and Me
Most of you probably don’t know that I’m working on a biography of Flannery O’Connor to be released in 2012. This will be part of Thomas Nelson’s Christian Encounters series […]
Unsolicited Writing Advice: On the Real World
I was reading some writing blog or listserv a few years back, and I ran across a fellow–a writer of espionage-action thrillers–who was trying to work himself out of a […]
Strawberry Girl: Pay No Attention to the Cover
A reviewer on Amazon mentioned that Lois Lenski’s Strawberry Girl has the most misleading cover ever. I completely agree. The cover (not to mention the title) of this Newbery novel from […]
City Scenes: The Subway
I walked past a Subway sandwich shop in downtown Nashville the other day. In the booth by the window sat a lovely young woman in a sequined dress. She had […]
A New Thing
“I am doing a new thing,” God said. “I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” The weak things of the world will shame the […]
Voyage of the Dawn Treader Movie: My “Review”
I went to see the Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie over the weekend. I liked it. I thought Will Poulter, the boy who played Eustace Scrubb, was brilliant. I […]
A Christmas Poem from GK Chesterton
I have seen this Chesterton poem several places on the World Wide InterWebs, but I don’t know the original bibliography. Anybody know where this poem came from? In any case, […]
Audience Participation Friday: Christmas Stories
Read-aloud at the Rogers house the last few nights has been The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, by Barbara Robinson. It’s a hilarious story about a family of juvenile delinquents named […]
Great New Christmas Music for Juveniles: A Slugs and Bugs Christmas
If you have juveniles in your life, you need to know about Randall Goodgame and Andrew Peterson’s Slugs and Bugs CDs. The original–Slugs and Bugs and Lullabies–came out a few […]