February 22nd, 2008 — blogging, christianity, faith and work, interviews, podcast
I’ve been talking to Ken Mann a bit via email lately. He directed me to this video that wrestles with relativism and the human need for absolute truth–and a rowdy discussion of the video over at ThinkingChristian.
The video is not quite three minutes. (Click here if it won’t load.)
So here are my thoughts and questions for you.
February 12th, 2008 — christianity, poetry
February 6th, 2008 — christianity, meme, reading
L. L. Barkat tagged me for an interesting meme that reminds me of the Oulipo group (especially N+7 poems). Yes, their site is in French. No, I don’t speak French, and you don’t have to either to appreciate the 1-2-3 meme.
Here’s what I had to do.
January 31st, 2008 — christianity, faith and work, highcallingblogs.com, thehighcalling.org, writing
At Laity Lodge, we’ve had a close connection to J. I. Packer for many years. Every year, I get the chance to hear this man speak and open the Scripture. At first, his style seemed dry to me, but gradually I came to appreciate the incredible wisdom he has. One Laity Lodge director described listening to Packer as being something akin to drinking from a firehose.
In the first ever posted Laity Lodge video, here’s J. I. Packer describing his calling to write. (I’d be curious what you think of the video, too.)
January 28th, 2008 — blogtour, christianity, faith and work, highcallingblogs.com, marketing, networking
At FastCompany this month, Clive Thompson asks, “Is the Tipping Point Toast?” He makes a good point that “your average slob is just as likely as a well-connected person to start a huge new trend.”
Why should any readers of GoodWordEditing.com care?
January 24th, 2008 — christianity, faith and work, interviews, parenting
Tina Howard, aka spaghettipie, interviewed me recently for her blog Stewardship Living, in which I hand out advice with shameless self-importance. Like this:
January 7th, 2008 — christianity, thehighcalling.org
Does that make me a bad father? The children’s ministry told me about it kindly on Sunday morning. “Your son taught us a new song,” they said.
My son broke out into song right there…
December 19th, 2007 — christianity, publishing
Gabe Lyons, author of the new book unchristian says, “Just be there.” That’s right. Show up and participate in the culture. Be in the world, not of it. Get out of the cocoon, and make friends with Hollywood, Broadway, and Fifth Avenue.
Update: Thanks to L.L. for catching my ridiculous stupid typo in the headline. “Gage” for “gauge.”
December 10th, 2007 — High Calling Blogs, christianity
High Calling Bloggers, Rob and David have a very moving post over at Red Letter Believers about two recent shootings in Colorado. At the end of the post, they ask if the YWAM director extends forgiveness too quickly. My response here began as a comment that quickly turned into this post.
Can people forgive too quickly? What a question! Of course, we can’t answer that question in this specific context without questioning the director’s motives–his relationship to the victims, his relationship to the victims’ family. But that doesn’t make the underlying question any less valid: Can a person ever be too quick to forgive?
December 7th, 2007 — CSFF, christianity, fantasy, writing
There’s been a lot of talk and some fear in Christian circles about the new atheist fantasy for kids. As usual, the critics agree we’ve made much ado about nothing.
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