A Liturgy for Beginning an Artistic Work
Happy New Year, dear friends. Here is a liturgy for all the beautiful things you will bring into being this year—both works of art and...
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Mar 2, 2017
Outside Over There: A Window into the World of Maurice Sendak
On May 8, 2012, it was announced that Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are and countless other books, had passed away. As...
Feb 22, 2017
Songs from Struck
I started writing songs when I was in High School. In recent years, life, calling, and family have redirected my creative bandwidth to...
Feb 20, 2017
Smelling Flowers in the Dark
I think we all have memories of finishing a favorite childhood book—of turning the final page and feeling as if we’ve lived a lifetime in...
Feb 1, 2017
Children’s Books Live Illustration on the NYT
Word Of Mouse is co-written by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein, and illustrated by me. As part of the publicity for the book,...
Jan 31, 2017
What I Didn’t Hear in Silence
Silence is a masterpiece that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. I don’t know when I’ve ever seen an adaptation that so...
Jan 30, 2017
My True Name
I’m going to tell you a secret. This is one of those details of the writing process that feels so intimate I’m almost embarrassed to...
Jan 26, 2017
The Craft and Courage of L.M. Montgomery, Pt 4
In this final installment, I want to say a few words about Lucy Maud’s personal challenges as a writer. Even a casual perusal of her...
Jan 25, 2017
Friday Night at the Movies: Silence
Books like Silence only come around once or twice in a generation. I read it several years ago (my review here), and I haven’t stopped...
Jan 23, 2017
On the Possibility of Being Met in Winter
I experience winter, if not as a kind of death, then at least as a closing in of the margins of life. The light grows shorter, the cold...
Jan 19, 2017
Lies that Tell Truths
One of my favorite anticipations of the new year is the first book I will read. Some time ago, for a few years in a row, I started each...
Jan 10, 2017
What Makes a Great Christian Novel?
Sarah Arthur, a writer and speaker, is one of the preliminary fiction judges for CT’s annual book awards. She put a list together of what...
Dec 30, 2016
Our Favorite Books of 2016
Here we are at the end of 2016, and here we are with our list of the books we enjoyed the most (movies and music to follow). Happy New...
Dec 28, 2016
Gods & Rabbits: How Watership Down Leads Believers and Writers to Freedom
Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, creator of Fiver and Bigwig and Hazel and an entire rabbit vocabulary, died yesterday at the...
Dec 19, 2016
Liturgy of the Ordinary
What if I told you I just read a book that made brushing my teeth feel like a holy act? I actually got all weepy over them. My teeth, I...
Dec 15, 2016
(Re) Remembering What We Mean
Author’s Note: Last May (2016) I enlisted Jamin Still’s visual genius and together we launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring our...
Dec 14, 2016
Champagne For The Soul: Rediscovering God’s Gift Of Joy
For the past several years, I’ve had the pleasure of being invited to play an annual concert. It is the only annual show I have, which is...
Dec 13, 2016
Podcast Episode 54: Martyrs, Not Saints
Shusako Endo’s Silence is a powerful work of fiction, and is now a feature film by Martin Scorsese. Jonathan Rogers sits down with Thomas...
Dec 8, 2016
Bunnicula Left Its Mark On Me
A few days ago in the mail, I received a teeshirt with the classic Bunnicula book cover on it. I’ll admit, I got a bit emotional....
Dec 7, 2016
Staff Work of the Omnipotence
I gave in to a cold a few weeks ago. It had been pursuing me for days, ever since we got home from Hutchmoot, but it finally caught up...
Nov 28, 2016
Deep Enough for Ivorybills
Back in 2005, scientists in Arkansas said they had seen an ivory-billed woodpecker. The news sent an almost electric shock through the...
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