My wife and I saw the movie The Trip with friends recently, and of the many hilarious and occasionally poignant scenes, one in particular stayed with me enough that I tried to apply it to…
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Before I interviewed Mary Karr this year at our Writer’s Symposium, I read or re-read everything of hers I could find. Her memoirs, Liar’s Club, Cherry, Lit, her poetry, her essays, her introduction to a…
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Bell was at our Writer’s Symposium in February, just before his Love Wins book came out and just before Time Magazine put his book on the cover, and the national talk shows interviewed him, and…
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No, this isn’t a movie review. It’s my sentiment after my wife, daughter and I visited our son and his new wife Amy in their own habitat in Guatemala over Christmas. Blake and Amy got…
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I have to confess that the real reason I wanted to interview Davis Guggenheim was not because I thought his new documentary Waiting for ‘Superman’ was superb. Actually I DID think it was superb. Nor…
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Recently I attended a conference at Oxford University called God and Physics. More than 100 scientists, philosophers, theologians and others gathered for a few days of lecture and discussion on topics raised in the writings…
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In a moment of either weakness or desperation — maybe both — the president of the university where I teach asked me to be the 2010 commencement speaker. Not at another school, mind you, but…
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That’s what this reviewer did in the prominent magazine Books and Culture. She said that if only the modern day Job character in the movie A Serious Man had read my book, he wouldn’t have…
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Kathleen was in San Diego for our Writer’s Symposium by the Sea to talk about writing, and her book Acedia and Me.
My department at Point Loma Nazarene University asked me to give a reading and discuss my book, God Hides in Plain Sight. We talked about publishing, rejection, strange neighbors and what goes into writing a…
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