Monthly Archives: October 2016

Character Building

I had an introspective thought and then turned to wondering whether it had implications for character building on two levels. Let me know what you think.

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Reformation Reading Plan

Am I posting too much about reading? Or is reading relevant enough to writing and a writer’s life? Anyway, I heard of a Reformation reading plan that I thought I’d share. You go here, download an app, and away you go.

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Reach Others

“[A]ppealing to the imagination is a way we can reach others” (p. 18, Imagination Redeemed: Glorifying God with a Neglected Part of Your Mind).
I’m just going to rip that line out of a paragraph so we can digest that a little bit. It seems to me that there are two big parts to this thought: a) we can reach others, and b) we can appeal to imagination in order to do so. Suddenly, imagination is a tool in our hands, and a connective one at that.

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Reading Gaol

The other day my darlin’ asked for a reading suggestion. After looking through a few newly-unpacked books, I returned downstairs with some choices for him and a treat for me: The Complete Works of Oscar WildeMy reading for the night was “The Ballad of Reading Gaol“.

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Disorganized notes

For a while I was keeping a little pocket flip-top notebook in my purse. I’d jot down notes whenever they struck and try to title the page to make it more searcher-friendly. You know what I have now? Something bound to get lost before I type in my disorganized notes.

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Anniversaries

Occasions for hymns are all around us. Are you looking for a special reason to write one? It’s recently hit me how many congregations are having big anniversaries! My own, here in Oklahoma, just celebrated 90 years last year, but one of my previous congregations is wrapping up 100 years! To celebrate, they commissioned a hymn, so I’ll go ahead and link that, along with a respectful nod affectionately turned to Lisa Clark, wordsmith, and Kevin Hildebrand, musician extraordinaire.

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Buying Books and Not Reading Them

Buying books and not reading them: I almost can’t imagine avoiding that on-again/ off-again practice. After all, who doesn’t buy to stock up for a rain day or a lighter work load? Who doesn’t splurge on occasion? Anyway, I read a fun little article, “There’s a Word for Buy Books and Not Reading Them,” so I’ll link to it and comment.

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Another Imagination Book

I found another imagination book! The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing looks very interesting. It is a collection of essays, edited by Leland Ryken, that covers a wide variety of material.

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A Few Links

Here are a few links I recently discovered. Probably silly that it took me so long, but just maybe it’s taken you this long, also. 🙂

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October Portals of Prayer

Time for a yearly post about Portals of Prayer. Applying involves great writing practice and devotional discipline, and those writing samples allow CPH to discover new writers. Win, win. In this new quarter, October through December, I was pleased to see excellent writers for each month!

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