There are many harsh words for children: rebukes, judgments, condemnations, mean whispers, and raw shouts. Then there are life lessons to learn, too. Today’s post links to a post that talks about some of the harsher elements in classic fairytales: harsh words with children as a direct, intentional audience. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Stirring Blood
I’ve just come home from a much needed vacation and it was great. Sleeping in a hotel last night, however, a compulsion came upon me. I needed to reread a certain set of books to stir my blood. “Stir my blood?!” That is not language I typically use, but maybe novels are precisely the remedy for certain times of unbalanced humors. Stirring blood to re-quicken the rest of me!
Filed under Writer's Life
GoodRead Giveaways
Let’s talk about Giveaways. Amazon and Goodreads offer two easy methods. GoodRead Giveaways, from my point of view, has an edge on their competition.
Filed under Contests
Creatures love created things
If I can have a moment of your time, let’s thing about this: creatures love created things. Maybe that is ingrained and automatic. Maybe it is due, in part, to shadowy affection cast from our love for one another, creatures though we be. In sin, we’ll even love created things in spite toward the Creator! Now the devil even attacks that, presumably to tone down even our materialism lest creatures catch a whiff of actual love or Creator. So, isn’t this ripe stuff for a theology toward fiction?
Filed under As Theological Writers, Theological reflection
Imagination
I was talking with someone the other day who suggested an interesting thought. “The problem with modern art,” he surmised, “is that it lacks story. There isn’t anything for your imagination to work with.” I’d like to skip over art philosophy to consider the imagination. What is its real fodder? How do I understand or approach it? Continue reading
Filed under As Christian Writers
It isn’t Far
We live in unique times. I don’t always think of it that way, but it occurred to me that, for so long, the same needs simply sought different escapes. Nowadays people can’t even agree on what basic human needs are. As a society, we are actively blurring the few lines that existed throughout time and civilization. But, if you are looking for inspiration, it isn’t far.
Filed under Inspiration, Uncategorized
Gladly Say It: Press Release
Let’s “gladly say it!” Below is the press release of a great-looking book: God’s Own Child, I Gladly Say It! I daresay many of us can already recite parts of the text by heart! I must say it’s an excellent idea from a new-to-me small Lutheran publishing house. Great job, Kloria Publishing!
Filed under New Release
New Publisher Page
As a followup to my previous post about Small Publishing Houses, I’ve got a new Publisher Page up and running on my website. It lists Lutheran publishing houses of every size, denominational and independent publishing houses included. For good measure, I threw in Lutheran journals and periodicals at the end.
Filling Time
The time has come upon me. Instead of filling time, I’m getting swept away in the season of pre-filled, stress-inducing over-scheduling. I can’t say it’s altogether a bad thing. We’re prepping for a vacation, returning to some housework, and going back to school. To my horror, the public schools around here will start August 10th! Still, it’s hard to push down regret for all those imagined times to write I missed this summer, so let’s re-imagine, if you will, in an ongoing effort to keep writing in our schedules.
Filed under Theological reflection, Writer's Life
Christian Cyclopedia
There are a few resources I stumbled upon in my early years after college, and I thought I’d share one with you today: The Christian Cyclopedia.