Jeff Nelson

Five Lessons From Writing a Novel

It’s been about a month and a half since the release of my novel Mirrobius. The experience of writing it was so different from any other book that I’ve written, and the more I reflect on that process, the more I realize that I learned. If you’re anything like I was before I started, IContinue reading “Five Lessons From Writing a Novel”

Mumbled Church Words

Humanity has a long history of going along with destructive choices and behavior so long as the justification for it is dressed up with some God-talk. If state or church leaders want people to accept their calls for violence, discrimination, abuse, exclusion, or exploitation, many have found that dropping a few references to what GodContinue reading “Mumbled Church Words”

I Regret to Announce That I Have Begun Bullet Journaling

When I was pastoring local churches, I was able to come up with a relatively simple system for organizing my daily and weekly tasks. Due to the weekly rhythm of sermon and worship preparation, I discovered what parts of that process worked best to be accomplished on certain days. Then I could factor in regularContinue reading “I Regret to Announce That I Have Begun Bullet Journaling”