I’m speaking at 2011 Wordcamp Detroit this weekend, a gathering of bloggers using the Wordpress content management system. As a convenience for participants (and you), I’m posting here some links and resources I referred to.
Read more
Archive | books RSS feed for this section
read more, write more
September 23, 2011
9 Comments
Facebook updates are not the key to your future or your success. What you need is more long form reading in an age of Twitter.
Read more the perfect t-shirt
August 31, 2011
21 Comments
I was glad we didn’t get t-shirts at the staff retreat this year. The perfect t-shirt, after all, is the one you don’t have to wear.
Read more(re)collections on God’s faithfulness
August 22, 2011
5 Comments
I’ve been blogging now over nine years, and am planning to pull together some collections of these essays as small paperbacks that could be shared with others. I’ve outlined them here, and welcome your feedback on which ones you might find helpful or interesting.
Read more making peace with Potter
July 26, 2011
6 Comments
Many conservative Christians have had a love/hate relationship with the Harry Potter books, as in they love to hate them. And I understand their reasoning. Almost.
Read more clean, well-lighted prose
July 9, 2011
5 Comments
You can see what Hemingway wanted but never had: a clean, well-lighted place where the shadows are held at bay. Add an unhurried and sympathetic waiter and perhaps your nothingness will disappear.
Read more do you know what your teen is reading tonight?
July 5, 2011
2 Comments
Young readers today are exposed to an endless stream of edgy, hopeless, tragic and very dark prose.
Read moreguest blogger: Chris Chopp
May 5, 2011
5 Comments
I keep telling myself I’ve just got to be positive, things will get better. The economy will turn around; I will find a full time job. But maybe I’m wrong.
Read more the heart of the revolution
April 4, 2011
4 Comments
No technology makes men less evil that they are. We should not ascribe to the Twitter Revolutions virtues they have not yet demonstrated.
Read more
sin is crouching at the door
War and greed are still crouching at the door. This is the motivating principle of democracy itself, since it teaches us no man can be trusted too little or for too long.
Read more