Introducing a New Song: “Grace”
This song began with a dream that my wife, Kelsey, had, in which a group of well-dressed, professional-looking young men filed quietly into our house and proceeded to steal all our belongings, filling cardboard boxes with everything they could find.
Read More ›The Habit Podcast, Episode 23: John Hendrix
The Habit Podcast is a series of conversations with writers about writing, hosted by Jonathan Rogers. In today’s episode, Jonathan Rogers interviews John Hendrix, author of The Faithful Spy.
Read More ›Infant Born of Glory: A Review of Behold the Lamb of God
This Christmas season marks twenty years of Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb of God. Wow. What can I say about an album so beloved by so many people? Some of you were there in 1999 when AP first took his show on the road. I was four. My first Behold the Lamb experience didn’t come until just last year, and I feel like that negates anything I have to say about this record.
Read More ›Gobsmacked: An Afterword to The Light Princess
Years ago I was helping out in a Sunday School class, and the teacher asked the boys and girls what I thought was an unfortunate question.
Read More ›Celebrating Release Day for Behold the Lamb of God
Today brings the brand new, 2019 Behold the Lamb of God album recording, featuring familiar voices and a few new ones, produced by Ben Shive.
Read More ›A Review of The Dragon Lord Saga: Martin & Marco
At Hutchmoot this year I was able to sit down for lunch with Jonny Jimison, the creator of The Dragon Lord Saga: Martin & Marco—the new, full-color edition from Rabbit Room Press. We didn’t discuss his new book, because he was busy teaching Douglas McKelvey how to play the card game that is a spin off from the book. That was fine, because I had already told him what I hated about his book—it was “Volume 1.”
Read More ›The Habit Podcast, Episode 22: Maryrose Wood
The Habit Podcast is a series of conversations with writers about writing, hosted by Jonathan Rogers. In today’s episode, Jonathan Rogers interviews Maryrose Wood, author of the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series.
Read More ›The Silence & Presence of God: Moviegoing with Ingmar Bergman
Last year at Hutchmoot, I was perusing Eric Peters’s delightful used bookshop when I stumbled on a work called The Silence of God: Creative Response to the Films of Ingmar Bergman. I had heard of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, but I couldn’t think of a single film of his that I had actually seen.
Read More ›Scared and Sacred: An Excerpt from Adorning the Dark
Being a writer doesn’t just mean writing. It means finishing. I’ve heard it said that a song is never finished, only abandoned. That’s not true for me. To the contrary, I can’t wait to be done with the thing, because only once it’s finished can I raise my hand at the back of the class and say something that will be considered, not ignored, something that might be a blessing to someone. Only then do I begin to take on some flesh and stop haunting the room. Walt Wangerin Jr. said once that art isn’t art until it’s experienced by another.
Read More ›The Power of Story: A Review of Slugs & Bugs Books
Our family has long enjoyed Randall Goodgame’s Slugs & Bugs albums, and even though my older kids have outgrown asking for them, you might still overhear my 14-year old singing “Tractor Tractor” on occasion. What makes those albums so appealing is Goodgame’s ability to draw kids in with his just-right balance of silliness and sincerity, laughter and lesson.
Read More ›What I Learned in the Darkness
I didn’t want to go there. Sitting in stunned silence as Ella Mine performed her Dream War show, I battled emotions that took me by complete surprise.
Read More ›The Habit Podcast, Episode 21: Drew Miller
The Habit Podcast is a series of conversations with writers about writing, hosted by Jonathan Rogers. In today’s episode, Jonathan Rogers interviews Drew Miller, singer/songwriter and content developer for the Rabbit Room.
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