Tag Archives: creativity

Announcing my new Advent ebook: Four Weeks

For almost as long as I wrote at my former blog, I undertook a practice every Advent of writing a weekly reflection about the season. I always referred to these posts as “part diary, part devotional:” they’d usually be about my own experiences of the holidays in both life and ministry, and I’d often relateContinue reading “Announcing my new Advent ebook: Four Weeks”

Laughing Was Holy

I once told a story during a sermon about a little boy sitting in a sanctuary pew on a Sunday morning. He kept turning around in his seat and smiling at the people behind him. Eventually the boy’s mother leaned over and made him face the front, saying “Stop smiling, you’re in church!” There’s aContinue reading “Laughing Was Holy”

My Month of Writing, Derailed

The month of September has been a big writing month for me. Or at least it was supposed to be. I had the plan to work on a new manuscript a little every day this month. I was making decent progress, too. But then disaster struck. One day (the 13th, it so happened), I pluggedContinue reading “My Month of Writing, Derailed”