Whether it's work, family, faith or fiction… BIG IDEAS hide in little stories.
My latest entry at the Catholic Bibles blog. It’s different than my usual StoryWiseGuy fare, so I’ll link to it here if it’s of interest. Feel free to check it out. http://www.catholicbiblesblog.com/2015/09/guest-post-resource-for-praying-sacred.html
Read More…Proud to be guest-blogging at the Catholic Bibles blog, wearing another hat. A little different than my typical StoryWiseGuy post, so I’ll link back to it here. Feel free to check it out! http://www.catholicbiblesblog.com/2015/09/guest-review-christian-community-bible.html
Read More…I’ve started thinking in terms of species: rather than looking at approved Catholic Bibles in English as standalone texts, I’ve started organizing them “genealogically,” along lines of descent that contain discrete textual traditions in successive generations.
Read More…My faith and geek lives are converging. Small wonder, since the same well waters both: imagination. After all, what is a geek but someone who enjoys imagined worlds as much as the real one? And what is the life of faith, other than enjoying a real world that comes from a bigger imagination than my own? I know that’s perilously […]
Read More…The ugliest painting in the world hangs in the window of a shop around the corner from my home. I can’t keep my eyes off of it.
Read More…StoryWiseGuy Read-Alouds promote literacy by reading aloud at the dinner table. Readers of all ages will enjoy the stories, while teachers and parents will appreciate the annotations modeling research-based instructional techniques to build critical thinking, vocabulary and fluency. Come on in and see what’s booking! Tonight’s Reading: King o’ the Cats (Author: Aaron Shepard, Illustrator: […]
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Instead of a life lived in tragic opposites, those opposites can be combined to create something new…
In other words, where our culture simply conditions us to look for sequels, we are hard-wired to look for trilogies instead.
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