Listening to My Life...

As we all keep figuring things out during this slow-moving car crash known as the pandemic , I find myself of two minds (maybe more?). On on...

As I slowly shape a syllabus for the fall, finish up with my summer interns, and start fleshing out the bones of my calendar for the year, I...

I love to read. I prefer reading to watching a movie. When I prepare to go on vacation, I start an ambitious pile of things I will read on t...

Almost exactly a year ago I posted an update of writing projects , and I'm happy to say that the opportunities keep coming. This week in...

I have books all over my house. My home office is filled with three separate six-shelf bookcases, crammed with books (and there is a stack...

THE FAITH OF A WRITER by Joyce Carol Oates What advice can an older writer presume to offer to a younger? Only what he or she might wish ...

Finished Westmont Mayterm course -- check. Attended high school graduation for many former youth groupies -- check. Participated in Prov...

I'm here to report, as a former English major, that I am glad I have never entertained notions of actually making a living as a writer. ...

I have had the unexpected pleasure of reconnecting lately in two different situations with some very old friends. It is surprising and wonde...

Children love to start collections. I'm not up to speed on what things that kids collect now, but back in the dark ages when I was littl...

When I moved on from my long-term youth ministry position in February 09, one of my hopes was to be able to write. I didn't have complet...

I woke up this morning to a pleasant little surprise in my inbox: I received a weekly update from the Fuller Youth Institute about their Top...

OK, I have to admit, I did a little personal jig today... I knew I was going to have an article in the latest issue of Youthworker Journal ...

I run into people and the first question I hear is often "So what's up with you?" One by one, the details perhaps don't so...

I've been asked by YMToday to contribute some articles to their newsletter. This is an impressive resource produced by the Center for Y...

Thanks to those of you who have plowed through these posts. This last update is the least specific. I will introduce it with this quote I he...

Good writing should help readers to “become less alone inside.” D.T. Max, writing about the work of David Foster Wallace, March 9, 2009 issu...