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A La Carte (June 9)

Everything You (Might Have) Wanted to Know About Writing and Publishing

Jared Wilson fills you in. (So, too, does Mark Jones at a different site.)

Read Like a Reader

This is so true: “This strict, make-every-book-count approach drained the fun out of reading. It left no room for fiction, and I started to read fewer books overall. I grew tired of rising to intellectual heights every time I found my bookmark.”

Embracing My Adoption

This story comes from a Pregnancy Care Centre in this area. Karmyn tells what it was like to grow up as an adopted child and then meet her birth mother. She also talks about a defining moment in her life: discovering she was conceived through rape.

When Your Political Ideology Turns On You

Trevin Wax continues his skilled cultural analysis, this time looking at actvists at colleges. “In most cases, the activists and their opponents all share the same worldview. They are multicultural, educated, and liberal in their politics. But they are caught between the ideal of free expression and the reality of identity politics.”

Don’t Follow Your Passion

Mike Rowe has some good counsel for young people: Don’t follow your passion. Kind of.

Likes, LOLs, and Longing

The Washington Post tells what it’s like to grow up as a girl in this strange new age.

This Day in 1834. 182 years ago today, William Carey, the Baptist “Father of Modern Protestant Missions,” died. *

Bach, Prelude in C-sharp Major

This is a fascinating visualization of a great piece of music.

I’m an Atheist. So Why Can’t I Shake God?

Someone recently asked, “I’m an Atheist. So Why Can’t I Shake God?” That’s a great question that the Bible is happy to answer.

Flashback: The Fault in Our Stars

This was an attempt to review the mega-selling book for teens, The Fault in Our Stars. “As far as I can see, Green has not written teens as they are, but as they’d like to be perceived.”

Watson

The right manner of growth is to grow less in one’s own eyes.

—Thomas Watson

  • The Stranger

    The Stranger: A Short Film For You

    Based on a true story and inspired by the truth that character comes before competence, “The Stranger” is an honest, light-hearted and meaningful picture of what it means to truly serve others.

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    A La Carte (July 9)

    A La Carte: The singer who changed the course of my life / Stay on the line / Incompatible thick communities / Lulla-Bible? / The solution is not megachurch / Who were the Anabaptists? / and more.

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    A La Carte (July 8)

    A La Carte: 15 ways to discern false teaching / The queering of history / The best part of my day / 6 kinds of hearers of God’s Word / Countering Muslim attacks on the Bible / Kindle deals / and more.

  • The Wonder of the Human Face

    The Wonder of the Human Face

    Then there are the wonders of human ingenuity: the machines, the inventions, the works of art. One lifetime is not nearly enough to explore or appreciate even the smallest fraction of them all.

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    A La Carte (July 7)

    A La Carte: A Christian patriot and his wayward nation / Outprinting the prosperity gospel / The organic church / A stranger in my homeland / Friendship’s faithful wounds / Sharing the gospel with someone who keeps rejecting it / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Pray Until You Feel Like It

    It is wise to set aside a time and place to pray—to build the habit and to then maintain it. But creating the habit may not always create the desire.