A smattering of links I’ve bookmarked because they were interesting, entertaining, or otherwise worth a read. This song just popped up on my Pandora station and I love it! Falling Slowly Absolutely horrifying and appalling – Rape victims say military labels them ‘crazy’. I’m doing a Bible study on Scouting the Divine, and I…
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Know Our History, Know Our Sins
“Among other things, when we associate Jesus with America, even in the most remote ways, we legitimize the widespread global perception that the Christian faith can be judged on the basis of what America has done in the past or continues to do in the present.” – Greg Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Nation…
Festival of Faith and Writing, the Final Day
On Essays – Patrick Madden Essays are the study of the everyday, but transcendent and transformative. “I have no more made my book than my book has made me.” – Montaigne The written ‘I’ and the writer ‘I’. The character ‘I’ is not the writer ‘I’. Essay conveys the quality of the author’s mind. Your…
Notes From A Conference, Day 2
Interview with Jonathan Safren Foer How writing and life works – the concerns that tumble around in your head are like clothes in a dryer. At some point they are ready to take out. These concerns are central to who we are. His books move towards fragmentation – why? Hip-hop has layers, like collage. We…
Notes From A Conference
This past weekend, I went to my first writing conference, the Festival of Faith and Writing. It was amazing. I loved eavesdropping on conversations that were about books and authors and writing. To listen to people enthuse about books and words was very soul-satisfying. Here are most of my notes from day 1, from some…
Festival of Faith and Writing!
A Beginning
My word for this year is Do. Not talk about doing, not talk about writing, not talk about seeking justice and loving the other. But doing it.
Shedding My Mask
“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.” ―Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea