Category: Personal
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No Matthew post this week because …
… I unexpectedly spent the weekend in the hospital, and my assistant (who is also my cousin/best friend/house mate), who usually puts the posts up for me, pretty much spent every minute of the weekend there with me. She took that picture ^^. And also braided my hair so it wouldn’t get in my face…
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What Does Art Have to Do with Being a Christian?
This is the outline for a talk I gave yesterday with my 1:11 Ministries team at an Art-Life Workshop hosted by HillCity Church in Abbotsford, BC. I promised to post it here for the attendees and wanted to make it available to my other readers as well. Be blessed! So before I get started,…
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Looking Back, Looking Forward
Your regularly scheduled series on the Gospel of Matthew will resume next week, but this morning, as I sit at my parents’ house enjoying holiday togetherness and getting over the annual holiday cold, I’m reflecting on a full year and looking forward to one I expect will be just as full. A year ago at…
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12 Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing: “This book is like getting five self-help books in one.”
Well, it’s a banner month for book releases! 5 Editors Tackle the 12 Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing released yesterday and is #1 in the Writing Reference category. Positive reviews are racking up as well. THANK YOU to everyone who preread the book and reviewed it. You are the best! If you’re a writer, I…
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The Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing
Many of you may know that I’ve written eighteen novels plus a small host of nonfiction books, articles, and blog posts; and on top of that I have edited hundreds of manuscripts and worked with hundreds of writing students. So when it comes to books, not many things are new to me. Enter coauthoring! With…
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Kyrie
The free-form poem “Kyrie” functioned as the script for a 1:11 production of the same name. It will be included in the upcoming book PIECES OF GRACE, a compilation of poems, short stories, and devotional narratives to be released in 2016. And God said, Of every tree in the garden you may eat, but of…
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How Far Will Love Go?
Along with other members of the 1:11 ministry team, I had the privilege of sharing at my home church for Good Friday. Below are some of the thoughts I shared and the music we used. It happened over three thousand years ago, and we’re still telling the story today. Three thousand years ago, life…
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Finding Love and Fighting Back
Our culture is so full of confused and harmful ideas about love that a lot of women and girls are looking for love in the wrong places. But there is a RIGHT place–a starting place for all real, authentic, life-changing love. That’s what the book I put together two years ago, with contributions from multiple…
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Rhyme Schemes Are Hard
I’ve been experimenting with poetry recently … you know, the kind that actually follows some kind of pattern. My conclusion is that rhyme schemes are harder than they look. This doesn’t have a title, but here you go: Warm and generous, like the sun Always giving, ever feeding The hungers of a world still…
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A Celtic Prayer: The Complete Production
If you wished you could see what we were doing in the Maritimes … Now you can! Soli Deo Gloria Ballet toured our twenty-minute piece “A Celtic Prayer” in New Brunswick, Novia Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Our hosts in New Minas, Nova Scotia, filmed it and posted it on YouTube. (I’m the tall one…