Five Liturgies for the Christmas Season from Every Moment Holy
A Liturgy for the Wrapping of Christmas Gifts by Wayne Garvey and Douglas McKelvey O Great Giver of All Good Gifts, I sit amongst rolls...
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Sep 21, 2009
It Is What It Is
I can’t remember the first time I heard someone say it. I never said it until my thirties, when the realities of life quietly ushered in...
Sep 15, 2009
Finding Truth in Media: Iron Man
I saw Iron Man for the first time a few months ago. I like superhero movies; my favorite ones exemplify a desire to do what is right no...
Sep 6, 2009
Recommendation: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
To those who have enjoyed and understood the late Professor Tolkien’s most famous literary creation for what it is, as opposed to what...
Sep 2, 2009
The Beast Under My Skin
There’s a character from The X-men, known simply as “Beast.” His name is actually Hank McCoy, and he was a public high school teacher...
Aug 28, 2009
On (movies about) Food, Cooking, and Locavores
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Aug 21, 2009
Happy Birthday, H.P. Lovecraft
This week, 119 years ago, master horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was born. Lovecraft believed imaginative fiction to be “art in its most...
Aug 20, 2009
Old Roads: Alberta Homestead
I spent two weeks in July with my family up at my in-laws’ ranch up in the Peace River country of Alberta, about an hour from Dawson...
Aug 17, 2009
Purchase! Or Be Eaten
The big day has arrived. NORTH! OR BE EATEN is on the shelves. It took a year to write, and it clocked in at about 120,000 words. I wrote...
Aug 13, 2009
Recommendation: YOUR JESUS IS TOO SAFE, by Jared C. Wilson
The following was written for the Your Jesus is Too Safe blog tour. Thanks to Jared C. Wilson and Kregel Publications for a copy of the...
Aug 12, 2009
The Hurt Locker: Being More Than One Thing At A Time
Vincent van Gogh put the barrel of his pistol to his chest and pulled the trigger. Earnest Hemingway, three weeks shy of his 62nd...
Aug 11, 2009
Amish Fantasy Book Title Competition Winner Announced and “Mennonite in Black” Didn̵
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Aug 9, 2009
The Wagon Wheel of Time?
I read here and there about what publishers are publishing a lot of now. Those can sometimes be opportunities for despair. A down-side of...
Aug 6, 2009
A Poem from the Bend in the Trail
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Aug 6, 2009
Vampires and the Fall
Vampires seem to be more popular than ever. Underworld, Twilight and True Blood are the newest expressions of the vampire story, and at...
Aug 3, 2009
Truth in Unlikely Places
Rachelle Gardner, who runs a great blog called Rants and Ramblings (On Life as a Literary Agent), ran a post last week that I thought...
Jul 30, 2009
Mister Wizard, Get Me Out of Here
Do people everywhere say they covet prayers? I have heard a thousand people say that they coveted my prayers, or the prayers of everyone....
Jul 26, 2009
The High Calling of Bending Low
I just finished Roald Dahl’s short autobiography Boy: Tales of Childhood, which was a fine gift from Russ Ramsey last time I saw him. I...
Jul 23, 2009
Why Do You Write Fiction? Part II: Things and Man and God (sorry no Latin)
In the first part (which has Latin in the title, and which you can read here, even here, I say) of this random, semi-coherent series...
Jul 23, 2009
On a Wedding
A few years back, some friends–Boris and Martha–asked me to give the charge at their wedding. Here’s part of what I said… The old wedding...
Jul 21, 2009
A Juggling Act
My family regularly attends children’s storytime at the Nashville Public Library where Library Pete, The Professor, and Mary Mary regale...
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