Calling the American church out of the shallows and into the deeper waters of the faith
Well, with the scene I just added to my new book, I’ve crested the 90,000 word mark, so progress is being made. My best guess is that I’m still on pace for about 140K total for the book, at least in draft form. With some good, thorough editing, I’d imagine that number will shrink. At … Read More “90K & Bloody Death” »
So, I don’t often stray from matters of writing or faith, but something happened yesterday that I can’t let pass without comment. I have a former student, an ’09 graduate of the school where I teach, who was taken 9th overall last year in the MLB draft by the Detroit Tigers. His name is Jacob … Read More “Former Student Strikes Out Mark Teixiera” »
All right, so this has been brewing a while. To explain myself well, I should supply some background. As my little progress-o-meter in the sidebar shows, I’ve crested the 60% complete point in the novel I’m working on. What this means, in general, is that several things are coming to a head in the story … Read More “Update & Mini-Rant on ‘All Action, All the Time’ Stories” »
The point of this brief post is to apologize to anyone who tried to access my blog over the last week or so and ran into technical difficulties. The service that hosts my site migrated it to a new platform just over a week ago, and that’s where the problems began. Thankfully, my friend Rob … Read More “Technical Difficulties” »
Well, I’d hoped to finish the new chapter I started last week on Saturday, but I didn’t quite get there. I did finish today, though, so I was almost on target. The main reason I didn’t get there on Saturday was that I discovered as I edited one of the key scenes in the chapter … Read More “Gaffes & Progress” »
I promised I’d be more faithful at blogging this year, so here’s an update on my post from last week. I haven’t written anything. But wait, that doesn’t mean it’s been a useless week. Quite the contrary, I’d say it has been a very good week. While I didn’t start a new chapter (and thus, … Read More “Structure, Sweet Structure” »
First of all, my apologies to the handful of folks who still faithfully check my blog. I was pretty negligent about updating it during ’09, and while I didn’t exactly make a New Year’s resolution to be better at it in 2010, I will try to be. Secondly, I wanted to update my writing status. … Read More “New Book – Take 2” »
Speaking of C.S. Lewis (see previous post), for the next two and a half weeks, fans of BOTB will have a chance to vote for All My Holy Mountain to win the Clive Staples Award, which is a new award that some folks are trying to launch to support Christian Speculative Fiction. If you’re interesting … Read More “Clive Staples Award & Update” »
“God likes matter. He invented it.” C.S. Lewis I think Jack was right. God does like matter. So should we. The beauty of creation is testimony to the loving care God took to shape & form it. However, I don’t think God likes how we obsess over it. How we grovel and fawn over it, … Read More “A Brief Reflection on Matter & Materialism” »
Well, I’ve finally bowed the knee to modernity and reactivated my short-lived Facebook account that I first opened a few years back. I eventually deactivated it because I didn’t really use it very much and at the time, didn’t think I ever would. So why bring it back? The main reason is that after a … Read More “Facebook, Finally” »
