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.
Entries from September 2007 ↓
Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, and Emergents, Oh My!
September 29th, 2007 — christianity, responses
Tomatoes in the Halls of Power - Concerning Veggies and Culture and a Movie My Son Will Love
September 28th, 2007 — fantasy, inspiring, parables, thehighcalling.org
Yesterday, I met Bob the Tomato. And Mr. Lundt. And Pa Grape. Any American Christian with kids my age, probably knows those names. They may even know the name Phil Vischer, the founder of Big Idea.
At the Religion Newswriter’s Association Conference last night, Big Idea and Lovell-Fairchild previewed The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything. There’s an embargo on reviews, so I’m not going to review the movie or share spoilers.
But I can say there are…
Real Simple Syndication Made Simple
September 27th, 2007 — blogging, writing
Yesterday at the Religion Newswriter’s Association New Media preconference, Brian Peat created an RNAconference blog. He even gave us a homework assignment to login and write a post. (Sorry, Brian, my dog ate my password, but I left several comments and even a trackback.)
At some point, Brian started playing around to show everyone the neat tricks you can make a blog do.
Sit. Beg. Roll over. Aggregate this RSS feed from my Flickr account…
Oops. That last trick stumped a few people.
“What is RSS?” they asked.
Good Words from Religion Newswriters
September 26th, 2007 — writing
Today, I went to the new media preconference for the Religion Newswriter’s Association conference in San Antonio at the Menger Hotel.
In the first session Kate Fox encouraged the journalists there to “Thrive in the new media environment.”
Here are a few good words from Kate:
Contact Me
September 25th, 2007 — writing
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Poetry Friday: The Picasso of Pancakes
September 21st, 2007 — poetry
I was talking with John Leax via email today. One of the perks of being editor for TheHighCalling.org is that I get to work with some of the best writers and poets in the country. If you don’t know Leax’s work, you must check it out.
He also edits an interesting blogzine called Stone Work Journal, that published two of my poems in their last issue. Eventually, they hope to host audio content for the poems as well.
All that to say, it’s been awhile since I posted a poem here. So here’s a poem and a podcast of me reading it:
The Return: Let’s All Review Page One
September 18th, 2007 — CSFF, speculative fiction
Yesterday, I wrote my thoughts on The Return‘s front cover, back cover, endorsements, and stuff.
Today, I’d like to do a quick community review of page one. As Camy Tang said recently, most readers give a book a page or two to hook the reader. She figures that’s about 20 seconds.
The Return: Judging a Book before Page One
September 17th, 2007 — CSFF, blogtour, speculative fiction
To be fair, I should judge The Return by a little more than its cover, right? But we do need to start at the beginning with…
1) The cover
As a science fiction fan, this cover gets my attention. I recognize that photo from NASA’s archives. Looks like a genuine Rover shot, but I’m not really sure.
My feeling that The Return could actually be good, sound, technical science fiction is reinforced by the blurb on …
How My Kindergartener Learned to Read Chapter Books
September 14th, 2007 — parenting, reading
To be fair, she’s in the first grade now, but she did begin reading chapter books last year. I was the typical proud dad, but I only recently realized what most kids are reading at her age. The contrast is startling.
I guess I could pat myself on the back about all of the wonderful things we did, including pass down some apparently awesome genes. But that’s obnoxious, and probably untruthful.
So instead of gloating, I thought I would talk about the easy things we do that have probably helped our kids learn how to read. Most of them are accidental. Here they are in no particular order: Continue reading →
We Don’t Need More Christian Writers.
September 11th, 2007 — interviews, thehighcalling.org
That’s Dick Staub quoting C. S. Lewis. I asked him about Christian media when I interviewed him recently for TheHighCalling.org. His answer suprised and delighted me, “I don’t think that there is such a thing as Christian media. In a sense, I agree with C. S. Lewis who said, ‘We don’t need more Christian writers. We need more great writers who are Christian.’ ”
