Faith, Fiction, Friends

From the beginning of his poetry and writing career,  T.S. Eliot  was considered of a similar mind as the poet and cultural critic  Matthew ...

Does poetry matter to your faith?  Most Christians would likely be puzzled at the question even being asked.    Poet  Dana Gioia  says it sh...

It’s something of a romp through reality, or about reality.  Writer  Paul Hughes  describes his long essay / short book  On Real  as a brush...

Wiseblood Books   has been publishing a series of lengthy   essays about contemporary culture . These include   Duty, the Soul of Beauty: He...

Someone forgot to tell Joseph Conrad.  When you write fiction, you’re supposed follow the rule of thirds. The first third is the in...

I’m reading  Vintage Saints and Sinners: 25 Christians Who Transformed My Faith  by Karen Wright Marsh, and I’m struck by how ordinar...

The road ahead was not a literal road. But it felt like one. A very long one. My organization had just done what organizations are fa...

Writers read a lot of books on writing. I’ve learned that books on writing fall into three loose groups. One group, by far the largest,...

The deeper I get into  The Scarlet Letter , the more I wonder who the novel is really about. It may be less about Hester Prynne and more ...

Darrell Vesterfelt, editor of the online magazine Prodigal , has a story to tell. And it’s his story, a story that he will tell you he ...