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It’s time to continue  my list, my rants, my reflections about spiritual books that have shaped  America’s faith. This week the list will take me over the half way point. This section of the list has some surprises, and has more fiction than the past two installments. As always, let me know if you agree…

Two free downloads caught my eye over at Christian Audio  this week. One of the most prolific and spiritual poets and essayists of the last few decades, Wendell Berry, is featured for this month. You can download his book “Hannah COulter” for free. Okay I haven’t read this one, but really, I regret not being introduced…

Pastor and author Chris Seay  spoke recently at a Ted event in Houston about the importance of understanding and embracing  our individual stories. He gets bonus points from me for quoting a poem by one of my favorite poets, spoken word artist Taylor Mali.  This is a long clip, but  well worth a listen.  

With the opening of the movie “The Help” this week – a beloved book now a movie with a huge all-star cast- I began wondering what is next for author Kathryn Stockett.  After all, “The Help”  was rejected over 60 times before it was an unexpected success. Well, it seems her next book will follow…

Sure, Mark Zuckerberg keeps insisting Facebook is not trying to take over the world through social media, but today Facebook just got into the publishing biz -sort of. Facebook has acquired an ebook company, Push Pop Press. They creative interactive ebooks for iPads. Push Pop has already worked with the likes of Al Gore on…

A  couple of years have passed since I read the painful yet  laugh-out-loud memoir “Angry Conversations With God.” Written by talented actress Susan Isaacs, it chronicled her struggles with  God and  framed those struggles in the context of marriage counseling. This week I have been hanging out with Susan in a workshop and have had fun discussing…

I am at one of my favorite places on earth, The Glen Workshop West in Santa Fe. This is my third year of schmoozing with authors and  other aspiring writers such as myself.  If you want to hang out with “Girl Meets God” author Lauren Winner or  illustrator Barry Moser, this is the place. While…

I needed a bit of  old-fashioned , feel good inspiration today to  break me out of a cynical mindset brought on by deadlines and travels plans gone awry. This story about seven-year-old Evan Moss was just the story I needed to stop grumbling for a moment.  He as just written his first book “My Seizure…

I have hit a poetry phase in my life in the last few months. I have been discovering many poets who are challenging me and inspiring me  in a way other work is not. Certainly one of them is Anne Doe Overstreet. I think Anne – who is married to that other Overstreet I have recently…

Yes, speculation has been rampant for some time on who is going to fill the gap left by Harry Potter now that the final movie installment is out. Well the frontrunner seems to be  Erin Morgenstern’s “Night Circus”.  It debuts this fall and Hollywood is already circling around it with dollar signs in their eyes.…
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