What I’m Thinking

How Deeply Satisfying. . .

How deeply satisfying it is, to have a teenager I've never met, who is touched by my book The Hinge…

13 years ago

The Roots of Creativity, Seen Through a Three-Inch Frame

A fellow author's challenge,  to write what you can see through a one-inch frame about your childhood, led me to…

13 years ago

How a Library Helped Save Me

The Ernie Pyle Memorial Library Albuquerque, New Mexico A recently- discovered portrait of the famous WWII journalist Ernie Pyle is…

13 years ago

Is there a Universal Grammar of God?

Where does my heart beat much of the time? In my family, in my writing, and in my Bible study…

14 years ago

A Book and Eternity

I love (and often mention) the generalization we can derive from Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000 – where the lunch…

14 years ago

Dothan? Why Dothan?

One of the perks of having an always-active mind is that it is, well, always active. Case in point:  One…

14 years ago

Chiasmus in my Current Novel

For literary geeks only: This is a chapter from the novel I am currently writing.  It includes an ancient literary…

14 years ago

Interview on Examiner

The Examiner recently interviewed me with the following questions: Q-How did you get started writing?A-Writing begins, I think, with the…

14 years ago

No Silent Reading

There have been many ground-breaking events in the history of Christian literature and its readers. Perhaps one of the most…

14 years ago

Wondering about The Mormon Mirage

Zondervan and Harper-Collins have provided an easy way for you to browse inside my book, The Mormon Mirage:  A Former…

15 years ago