I got kicked out of a writer’s critique group once. No, I wasn’t badmouthing Strunk & White or renegotiating the rules of grammar. I just didn’t do enough crits. Since then, I’ve kind of done my own thing. I wasn’t always a Lone Ranger. When I first started writing (about 5 years ago), said critique [...]

Perhaps the most obvious unspoken reality about race relations in America is the double standard. I mean, when Don Imus gets excoriated by the press for using crude racial slang and is ultimately fired, while Jessee Jackson is overheard calling for Barack Obama’s castration and black youths casually call each other “niggas” without so much [...]

We have 14 folks in our Yahoo Duran’s Madness NCAA Pool. At five bucks a pop, I stand a chance to win $70. Course, my hopes of submitting a perfect score were dashed the first day when #7 Cal tanked against #10 Maryland. Oh well.  When asked about the possibilities of someone filling out a [...]

Thanks to Penwright bud, Jessica Dotta, for the heads up on this. From the article in The Tennessean, Christian fiction thrives during economic crisis: Local Christian publishers who launched or expanded their fiction lines in recent years are enjoying the fruits of their labors thanks to an unlikely source — the flagging economy. While sales [...]

I recently purchased six tickets to the Christopher Hitchens vs. William Lane Craig Debate being held at nearby Biola University. The main auditorium has sold out, but overflow tickets are still being sold for the Whittier Area Community Church. Apparently, this is a hugely popular event. But what’s the draw? Debates between Christians and atheists [...]

In case you missed it, last week was Pink Friday. People were asked to show support for the tens of thousands of teachers facing potential layoffs due to California’s budget crisis. Yeah, it’s crazy. But to hear the public school teachers out here frame it, you’d think the world was coming to an end. There’s [...]

That according to Gender Analyzer.  It uses Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman. And all this time the feminists had me believing that, other than plumbing, there’s no real differences between the genders. Okay, so it pegged me, for the most part, as a man. I’m just [...]

I’m not sure how I became a spokesperson for Christian Horror, but… Several months ago I was contacted by a freelancer about doing an interview with Rue Morgue, one of the top horror mags on the market. Apparently, she’d run into some of my musings (like HERE, HERE and HERE) regarding the genre, and wondered [...]

Jeffrey Overstreet was kind enough to link my post Slumdog Millionaire — Transcending Karma at his site a while back. It remains one of my most frequented posts. I find myself continually coming back its underlying thesis, which is this: A biblical worldview is, in the dramatic / narrative sense, more viable for an author [...]