Southern California pastor, writer, and podcaster Thien Doan invited me to be on his podcast! This was my first podcast invitation, so I was really jazzed about it. (I didn’t spill the beans by telling Thien that I’m not really so prolific.) The Prolific Christian Writer Podcast It is a pretty new podcast and I […]
Interview with Richard P Zimmerman, Author of Walk With Me to Another Land
Back when I was an undergrad at the University of Washington, University Presbyterian Church brought me into contact with some fantastic people. One of them was a fellow college student named Richard P Zimmerman — better known as Rich. I think he was feeling called to ministry even then — he was the only undergraduate […]
Setting Sail Into Writing Fiction (The Writer’s Inner Life)
I’ve not posted often in the past month. I spent the time writing the first draft of a novel. It was NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) — when several hundred thousand wannabe novelists around the world each set the goal of producing a 50,000 word first draft in the month of November. I’m happy to say […]
New Online Class for Advent — Lectio Divina
Advent starts Sunday! And so does my brand new online class on lectio divina. I suspect that, like me, you want this Advent to be a time of deepening your connection with God — instead of being swept into the hurly burly of shopping and office parties. As the prophet and the gospel remind us, we need to […]
Interview with Chuck Tate, author of 41 Will Come
Today I’m bringing you an interview with Chuck Tate, founding pastor of Rock Church in Peoria Illinois, and author of 41 Will Come: Holding On When Life Gets Tough–and Standing Strong Until a New Day Dawns. Remember all those biblical stories with 40 days of hard waiting? Chuck has a really inspiring message of hope, because he knows from […]