March 10th, 2008 — blogging, faith
Guy Kawasaki brings you 59 feeds about faith. In one sense this isn’t surprising to see. After all, Beliefnet has been around for awhile, bringing together lots of faiths under the banner of one URL.
Still, what Guy Kawasaki is doing seems significant. Last year when I approached the b5media group to ask why they had no religion category, they said the topic was just too explosive.
November 30th, 2007 — faith, parenting, writing
Last night before we took the Christmas pictures, during our dinner prayer, my son acted like a three-year-old.
That’s okay, I guess. He is three after all. But here’s what that looks like during a prayer.
June 8th, 2007 — faith, marketing, podcast, responses
Yesterday, Mark D. Robert’s comment section exploded, and he wisely chose to remain above the fray, popping in every so often to remind people to be civil.
Why? Mark D. Roberts—I think I can call him my friend, Mark D. Roberts—has done something wonderfully gutsy. He debated Christopher Hitchens on Hugh Hewitt’s Townhall, and now he’s blogging a more thoughtful, less interrupted response.Â
I finished listening to the debate this morning while I rode my bike to work. (Life is good.) And here is my primary thought.
April 18th, 2007 — CBA, CSFF, faith, fantasy
Some of my blogging friends are still talking about Karen Hancock’s Christian fantasy novel, Return of the Guardian-King. I thought I would highlight some of my favorite bits of wisdom they’ve shared over the past two days:
April 5th, 2007 — faith, poetry, responses
A discussion started on my Comments on God’s Blog post today. I haven’t commented there yet because I’m not sure what to say. I’m a little out of my league to be honest.
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April 2nd, 2007 — faith, poetry
January 29th, 2007 — blogging, editing, faith, publishing, writing
You may have noticed the title of this blog. GOOD word editing.
It’s a sort of play on my last name (Goodyear). And it’s an excuse to include that funny quote from Chesterton about shooting your grandmother in the top right. And I hope it implies that I’m a good editor. At least, I’m trying to be one.
“What does it mean to be a good editor?” you ask.
December 26th, 2006 — christianity, faith, fantasy, parables, writing
If you haven’t read George Barna’s research summary for the year, he has some interesting conclusions. And by interesting, I mean wacky.*
Take this one: New Research Explores Teenage Views and Behavior Regarding the Supernatural.Reminds me of my old days at the Church of Christ. In mid 1980s, I suffered through a series on defeating Satan. They told us we were surrounded by Satan. Papa Smurf? SATANIC. Alf? SATANIC. Heavy Metal Christian Music? SATANIC! We spent months learning the list of infected cultural icons.
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December 22nd, 2006 — christianity, faith, faith and work, poetry
So Christ has come. That’s what Christmas is all about, right? What happens after he comes, though? How are we supposed to respond?
The magi responded by going to find him. If you haven’t read T. S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi,” go read it. It’s short and highly accessible on a first read. (For those interested in poetry, this is a dramatic monologue. Robert Browning has many poems like this and they are great for studying voice. You can read more analysis here.)
Christians believe that seeking Christ is the journey of our lives. I’m a Christian, and I believe this. Like the Magi say, it is a hard journey. It is a journey of birth, but also a journey of death.
December 16th, 2006 — faith, faith and work, kingdom, parables, responses
This in response to Ted Gossard over on the Jesus community.
The Kingdom of Heaven is like a journal that a man kept for many months and set down on the trunk of his car to help his father bring in firewood.
The journal was filled with his poems, notes, thoughts, stories, letters from his children, artwork they had drawn together, pictures they had scribbled on notecards taped lovingly next to scribbled lists of words that rhyme. But he forgot to go back to the garage after carrying the wood. And instead his wife drove to the bank.
So he searched and searched, retracing her route, finding scattered pieces of paper that he recognized as ones he’d intended to tape down later. But no journal.
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