Calling the American church out of the shallows and into the deeper waters of the faith
I said in my 8/20 post that I’d come back to my discussion of Christians and the way they deal with the subject of evolution. My point here is in one sense, very simple – whenever we debate with anyone, a crucial step in the process is always to define your terms. As Mark Twain … Read More “Defining Our Terms” »
Authors Wayne Batson and Christopher Hopper – two of the other seven authors that I had the privilege of touring the West Coast with last October – have a great contest going on to promote their new book, Curse of the Spider King. Follow this link and check it out! http://enterthedoorwithin.blogspot.com/2009/09/biggest-contest-in-history-of-men-and.html
This is just a quick post to direct those who are interested to my interview at “Where the Map Ends.” You can follow the link that is in my sidebar to the site and then click on the “Interviews” heading, or you can just click here. Enjoy!
This past summer, I spent a morning at the St. Louis Zoo with my daughter. We were having a lovely morning, walking up toward the area of the Zoo set aside for the “Big Cats,” when we came across a peacock in full strut mode, his beautiful plumage on display for all to see. A … Read More “Reflections on a Peacock & the Survival of the Fittest” »
OK, so yesterday my family and I arrived in Charlotte, NC, to visit my good friend Matt and his family. As we were driving down their street, looking for their house, we passed a small cul-de-sac with the name, “Great Bear Ct.” I was pretty stoked to see that the “Great Bear” lived somewhere other … Read More “‘Great Bear Ct’” »
So, I finished John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction yesterday, making that three of the books on writing in my stack. It was a good read, but man was it a striking shift after reading Stephen King’s On Writing. King, I think it is fair to say, has the common touch. He’s sold a boatload … Read More “The Art of Fiction” »
So, I’ve not really kept up with my blogging, but I have been plodding away at my reading on the craft of writing. To date, I’ve read The Elements of Style by Strunk & White, On Writing by Stephen King, and I’m about halfway through The Art of Fiction by John Gardner. While Strunk & … Read More “Fiction: a fossil, a dream, or what?” »
As I said in my previous post, I have launched into self-assigned curriculum of reading books on writing, beginning with Strunk & White’s classic work, The Elements of Style. The venture is already paying dividends. I’m about 25 pages in, 25 pages packed with fairly compact instruction on usage, so far, with more coming on … Read More “‘the shape of what is to come’” »
So I’m starting out on a new venture tomorrow, seeking to address a serious deficiency of mine. I’ve gathered a stack of books about writing, which if I had any decency or discipline as a writer I’d have read long ago, but which I have sadly neglected. Still, better late than never, and it is … Read More “Reading About Writing” »
I thought I’d throw this question out there to see what kind of responses it elicited. I’ll get us started… Gandalf – This is an obvious one, but I always loved Tolkien’s Gandalf. He’s wise, he’s powerful, he speaks his mind and he is really, really beautifully written. That leads me to say, if you … Read More “Who are some of our Favorite Fantasy Characters?” »
