Faith, Fiction, Friends

The Hunger for the Real  – Christine Rosen at Commentary.  Who is Blake Whiting?  – Andrew Lawler at The American Scholar on the most produc...

I had a whole set of links planned and ready for this edition of Saturday Good Reads, and then Wednesday happened.  I didn’t know Charlie Ki...

I really didn’t think politicians were giving substantive speeches of ideas anymore, the kind with thesis statements, the marshaling of evi...

Twitter was the first social media platform I joined, way back in 2008. I was far from being an early adopter, but I was one of the first pe...

It was work that originally led me to sign up for Twitter and other social media platforms. For a number of years, social media became my wo...

When pastors or priest look out at their congregations each Sunday, do they think about how the social internet has changed the people in fr...

It’s difficult to look at almost anything online these days and not be offended. It seems worse when the person doing the offending is someo...

Chris Martin   works at Moody Publishers as a content marketing editor and a consultant in social media, marketing, and communications. He h...

A work colleague in a Latin American country sent an email, asking for help. A manufacturing plant had been proposed, and while most people ...

The Facebook app Instagram has been credited with a serious revival in poetry. Poets such as Nikita Gill, r.h. sin, Rupi Karr, Neal Sehgal, ...

If you’ve ever wondered what an “OOF” is, it’s the acronym for “online outrage fiesta.” It’s also the title of   a new novel by Strobe Withe...

It was a 21 st -century morality tale that exemplifies what social media can do. A young Iowa man holds up a sign during an ESPN-televi...

I’m active on Twitter, but not as an enthusiastic participant in conversations, news stories, and what could only be called “general ou...