Special thanks to David Kinnaman for his beautiful Foreword, and to Barbara Brown Taylor for contributing her haunting poem/prayer “The Mountain.”
Thank you to everyone who helped The Jesus Climb reach NUMBER ONE!
Virginia Woolf on the Relationship Between Loneliness and Creativity, by Maria Popova
“If I could catch the feeling, I would; the feeling of the singing of the real world, as one is driven by loneliness and silence from the habitable world.” – Virginia Woolf
Neil Gaiman on How Stories Last, by Maria Popova
Do stories grow? Pretty obviously — anybody who has ever heard a joke being passed on from one person to another knows that they can grow, they can change. Can stories reproduce? Well, yes.
Why has the Imagination been Sidelined in Literature? by Damien G. Walter
Einstein once famously proclaimed that “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Yet we find ourselves at the position today where any non STEM subject has seen a de facto obliteration of its status and funding. That’s not a criticism of STEM subjects or their creative potential, but as Einstein was trying to tell us, those subjects are at their strongest when honed by a powerful imagination.
How to Write Everyday Without Missing Your Life, by Genevieve Parker Hill
“The earlier in the day I write, the more likely I am to: a) write that day, and b) write more that day.” …………………………….-Genevieve Parker Hill by Author and World Traveler, Genevieve Parker Hill I’m deep in the thickets of drafting my…
Are Christians Writing “Edgy” for the Wrong Reasons? by Jeff Goins
Good art tests boundaries. It always has. We artists just need to check our motives (and egos) before we endeavor to create it. A Conversation with Randy Elrod’s: Why Christians Are Creating More “Edgy” Art, and C.J. Darlington’s, “Writing edgy… for all…
Opening Doors for Others: An Interview with Writer-Producer & Mentor Brian Bird
Prolific writer-producer Brian Bird is co-founder of Believe Pictures (with Michael Landon, Jr.) with the mission of developing and producing “high quality, entertaining, and life-and-faith-affirming, films and television depicting positive images and compelling moral stories.” Bird and Landon wrote and…