Uncategorized Through A Writer’s Eyes by Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/through-a-writers-eyes
Uncategorized The Intriguing Opening We’ve become all too used to clickbait headlines we see on the web (“10 Surefire Ways to Lose Weight: You Won’t Believe #7”). Creating intrigue is a valid approach, but…
Uncategorized Humble Beginnings Our exploration of the inner workings of Cumulative Advantage starts in 1968 with a Columbia University professor named Meyer Robert Schkolnick Meyer was born into a poor family of Russian…
Uncategorized Has the pandemic prepared us for pilgrimages? by Wes Granberg-Michaelson https://www.christiancentury.org/article/reflection/has-pandemic-prepared-us-pilgrimages
Uncategorized The grand questions If you are able to reside within your questions, if you allow memories to speak their mysteries, then the Great Mystery breathes life into your story. Only then will it…
Uncategorized At the conference table The most striking discovery in Dunbar’s study turned out to be the physical location where most of the important breakthroughs occurred. With a science like molecular biology, we inevitably have…
Uncategorized The Web The Web has explored the adjacent possible of its medium far faster than any other communications technology in history. In early 1994, the Web was a text-only medium, pages of…
Uncategorized Imagination – by Frederick Buechner EVEN A THOUSAND MILES inland you can smell the sea and hear the mewing of gulls if you give thought to it. You can see in your mind's eye the…
Uncategorized The space of innovation This is a book about the space of innovation. Some environments squelch new ideas; some environments seem to breed them effortlessly. The city and the Web have been such engines…
Uncategorized Something about the Web environment Consider, as an alternate scenario, the story of Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the online payment site PayPal, who decided in early 2005 the…
Uncategorized Protected: Responding to Criticism I apologized to you and got no responseI asked to speak with you and got no responseI increased the number of speakers with disabilities at my conferences, and you did…
Uncategorized No one enters the presence of God except by God’s grace The New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine has told a particular story so often that I can hardly get it wrong, but you need to know that she is Jewish in…
Uncategorized Creativity: More Possibilities Because God is in all things, every moment of your life contains more possibilities than you can perceive. Because God is creative and has made you creative, you can count…
Uncategorized The Power of Making Friends at Writing Conferences by Jackie Holness I was blessed to attend the inaugural Publishing in Color (PIC) conference in 2018 at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, New Jersey. I loved that…
Uncategorized Existential Dizziness Some are questioning whether the churches they grew up in have anything to offer them as they make their ways in a culture of many cultures with many views of…
Uncategorized A character who has a passionate desire In Art in the Zen of Writing, Ray Bradbury says that all you really need for a story is a character who has a passionate desire. The character and the…
Uncategorized The Hostility Toward Bible Study Teachers by Rick Jordan https://greatbibleteachers.com/the-hostility-toward-bible-study-teachers/
Uncategorized THE WRITER’S THREE PRIORITIES One spring I attended the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was privileged to hear Jane Yolen speak. Yolen, the author…
Uncategorized Creativity: Name Your Gift The LORD spoke to Moses: See, I have called by name Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: and I have filled him…
