October 1st, 2007 — christianity, faith and work
Still “reporting†from the Religion Newswriter’s Association conference. (L.L., is this another serious post?) It is certainly longer than most of what I do here, but I hope readers will stay with me to the end.
On Thursday, I was included in a lunch with D. Michael Lindsay, author of the new book Faith in the Halls of Power.
The book came out today, and I wanted to be one of the first to review it. Let me be blunt. It’s great. Let me be hyperbolic. It’s a masterpiece.
September 29th, 2007 — christianity, responses
Oh dear. I didn’t realize I couldn’t be both evangelical and emerging. According to Out of Ur’s latest post, I have to choose one or the other. It sounds to me like David Fitch is talking about fundamentalism rather than evangelicalism.
July 31st, 2007 — CBA, christianity, networking, publishing
It’s official. I’m going to the American Christian Fiction Writer’s Conference. (My work isn’t paying for this one either.)Â And because lists are fun, here are four reasons why I’m excited:
July 15th, 2007 — christianity, faith and work, thehighcalling.org
A friend of mine just sent me this fantastic article from Time magazine about my boss, Howard Butt, Jr. It’s a rare thing to see a man devote his entire life to the same vision. Mr. Butt did.
Go read God’s Groceryman. (It’s only 500 words.)
If you’re feeling a little down about your work, you especially need to go read it.
May 27th, 2007 — christianity, faith and work
I just found this video site called The Work of the People. And thought I’d pass on these thoughts about worship for you this Sunday.
March 31st, 2007 — blogging, christianity, speculative fiction
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Hey, God, cool blog, man. (Or whatever. I guess Jesus is the son of man, right?) I love it when CEO types start blogging. It’s so easy to think people in control aren’t even normal people. Not that you are normal. But if you are willing to blog, at least you’re meeting me where I’m at—speaking my language, you know?
February 20th, 2007 — CSFF, christianity, fantasy, publishing
A friend asked me that question last month. And it has been bugging me ever since.
The Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy (CSFF) blog tour is talking about Jeff Gerke and WhereTheMapEnds.com this month, so it seemed a good time to get input from others.
January 16th, 2007 — blogging, christianity, faith and work, parenting, publishing, writing
My alarm goes off at five. I get up. Flip on the coffee, stumble to the computer, and blink myself awake while the computer hums through its startup. I read a little of my work from the previous day and begin to fall into the clicking rhythm of creation.
When the coffee burbles, I go fill a mug and find my daughter standing in the hallway.
“Daddy, I’m scared,†she says. “Can you lay with me?â€
There are two kinds of writer’s block. Internal blocks and external.
I have external writer’s blocks. One of them is five years old.
January 3rd, 2007 — christianity, faith and work, faithintheworkplace.com, publishing, thehighcalling.org, writing
So here we are. The earth returns to approximately the same spot in space each January and begins a new trek around the sun. And we all say to ourselves, “This year, I’ll get it right.”
We’ve got a clean slate. A blank page. A new accounting register. And we’ve got plans to make the world work a little bit better. This year we’ll finish that novel. We’ll submit until our tongue bleeds from licking envelopes. We’ll walk step by step through Randy Ingermanson’s Snowflake Method.
It’s a good time to remember Proverbs 21:31.
December 28th, 2006 — CBA, christianity, editing, publishing, writing
Update 12-28: Michael Hyatt posted a follow-up article on his blog with the Thomas Nelson Top 100.
Michael Hyatt, the president and CEO of Thomas Nelson isn’t exactly Toto, and the American publishing business certainly isn’t Oz. But his blog does a great job of pulling back the curtain to demystify the Christian publishing world.
I need to come clean about what I’m doing in this blog post. Partially, it is just a summary and reorganization of some things Michael Hyatt says. But I also want to respond to his comments debunking bestseller lists. From the New York Times list to the USA Today list to Evangelical Christian Publisher Association’s list, he explains what book markets they include and what book markets they don’t.
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