The last 6-7 months have been a blur as I was busy reading, researching, writing, editing -- and a whole lot of staring at a blank screen -- in preparation for my new book, What It Means to be a Man: God's Design for Us in a World Full of Extremes. It's my second...
A little over two and half years ago I had the opportunity to travel over to Haiti on an amazing team that had been put together by Adventures in Missions. Our job was to blog daily and tell the stories of the Haitian people that we had met. But behind the scenes,...
The Anxious Christian: Can God Use Your Anxiety for Good?. I thought that writing the book was the long and tough part, and that when I handed my manuscript in...I was sort of done. Wrong. There is so much more work to do, and I'm excited about all the conversations...
When I originally sat down to write acknowledgements for my book The Anxious Christian: Can God Use Your Anxiety for Good?, I realized about 10 pages into the acknowledgements that that wasn't going to work. The publisher was looking for 1-2 pages, but I was 10 pages...
This has been an exciting month for me as I have been wrapping up some details on the soon to be publication of The Anxious Christian: Can God Use Your Anxiety for Good?. The book will be released by Moody Publishers on March 1. I'm very thankful for the amazing group...
A few months ago, a friend of mine pointed me towards the blog and online shop of Katie Clemons. My friend knew that I love to journal and thought I would like her stuff and her story. And he was right. I love the story of how Katie came into journaling and how that...
I love reading books, and like many of you, I read a lot of books in the last 10 years. Half of the decade I spent in graduate school (finishing up my MDiv and MFT) so there were a lot of books to be read. And I just really enjoy reading anyways. I read about 500...
Though Anne Lamott is speaking on writing--I think it can also be used as one of the best explanations for what a therapist does. I inserted the word therapist for writer and it best explains some of what goes on in therapy--things that are hard to put into words....
What would one's life look like if it was written with, and contained the elements that make for a good story? This is the fundamental question that I believe Donald Miller is after in his new book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My...
It seems we all like books. And we especially like making lists of books. In 2005 I wrote The Five Books I Would Recommend to a College Student...or Actually, to Anyone!, and listed in another post the Top 100 Religious Books of the 20th Century According to...
