Tag: Writers on Writing
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Inspired by Eugene Peterson
Years later, after I finished my memoir, I wrote to him that he inspired me, and sent him an advance copy of RUINED. I was thrilled beyond measure when he offered an endorsement, calling it a story of “lived theology.” He told me that he and his wife read my book aloud
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Writers on Writing: 4 Images of God, Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson has been a frequent speaker at Festival of Faith & Writing. I have a special fondness for her because she’s a sister Presbyterian, the daughter of missionaries. Which is your favorite of her young adult novels? The most famous are perhaps “Bridge to Terabithia” and “The Great Gilly Hopkins.” My personal favorite is…
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Writers on Writing: David Duncan, James McBride, Anne Lamott, Chaim Potok
Every writer loves tidbits about writing, so here are quotes from my notes from writers I heard at Festival of Faith and Writing 2000. DAVID JAMES DUNCAN “The collision of faith & writing is a job description.” ?Loving God?s world is like loving peanut M&M?s. Loving God is like loving the factory.? ?God is truth,…
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Writers on Writing: Anne Lamott, Maya Angelou, Walter Wangerin
Writers on writing: Anne Lamott, Maya Angelou, Walter Wangerin
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Writers on Writing: Scott Cairns
Here are a few choice bits from Scott Cairns, poet and essayist, raised-Baptist, now-Orthodox: “Tell the Calvinists they’re not as bad as they think they are.”
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Got Acedia? Who cares.
Acedia is an ancient term for a sin which can be defined as apathy, or boredom, or more precisely, “why bother.”