Image Journal has a couple of short-stories that impressed me. Tony Woodlief’s “Name” is about a Vietnamese prisoner of the Khmer Rouge, who is thought to be a spy. The other is Geoff Wyss‘ “Child of God” about a Catholic high school teacher who is upset about the dismissal of a student for being pregnant. [...]
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September 6, 2008
Confessions of a Republican National Convention Security Guard
Avi Steinberg wrote an interesting and humorous article for Slate, “Confessions of an RNC Security Guard” (here) which details his experience being a security guard during the Republican National Convention. His observation of the late night Republicans is wry and witty and I want to share the last few lines:
All the hotels in the area [...]
September 4, 2008
Two Videos For Your Viewing Pleasure
Here are a couple of video links. If you’re an Emergent hater then too bad, but I think these are good. The first one is by Brian McLaren about politics (here). And the second one is by Rob Bell about living a disciplined life with a clear purpose (here, with Portugese subtitles. I don’t know [...]
September 3, 2008
Christian News Northwest Highlights
As an avid reader of Christian News Northwest I decided I’d highlight some of its articles. I usually read it because I’m at work and I have nothing to do, but I always find something that either irks me or interests me that I want to share. And until they use my idea to improve [...]
September 3, 2008
For Writers, Readers, And Everyone Else 008
• Subtlety in fiction.
• Zondervan’s first novel competition. I wish I had 75,000 words written.
• Writing workshop pet-peeves.
• Why Jodi Picoult writes.
• Oregon Christian Writer’s one day conference at Multnomah is October 18th.
August 6, 2008
Christian News Northwest
I’m an avid reader of Christian News Northwest which is free and always in a stack in the lobby at my church. Most of the articles make me angry because there’s an obvious Christian bias. It’s not the Christian bias that makes me angry but the narrow mindedness.
Which brings us to the first article I [...]
July 26, 2008
As Close as We’ll Ever Be
The poet and philosopher Rubem Alves writes about the idea of writing a story or a novel with just one word. Could it be done? What word would he choose? Which words has the power to tell the whole story?
Of a singular word Emily Dickinson wrote, “I know nothing in the world that has [...]
July 22, 2008
The Place Where They Meet
It’s the first day of vacation Bible school (why are school and vacation together in the same phrase?) and we’re sitting in a circle and I’m counting to ten while the third and fourth graders reach down to touch their toes and I notice a puddle forming under one of the boys. When I stand [...]
July 18, 2008
Friday is For Writers, Readers, and Everyone Else
• How having a blog can be a dangerous thing (here).
• A list of fictional movies referred to in Seinfeld. (here via kottke)
• Even England is being swept up by The Shack’s success, reports the Guardian.
• Here are some stories and poems from PEN’s annual Prison Writing Competition.
• The US just named a new Poet Laureate. (here and [...]
July 15, 2008
Silent Songs
I once heard about a study where American music students were asked to sing one note on the spot. The majority of them sang a G note. When European music students were asked, the majority of them sang a C. The study found that the G note corresponded to the 120V of electricity used in [...]
