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Good article about Blogging and how to build an audience.

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"In the history of our church, storytelling came first. Theology, doctrine, and scholarship came later. Ours is an age of electronic parables. Every movie and TV show presents a worldview, a set of beliefs that tell us who we are, where we came from, and how we're...

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"It's interesting to me that people who want you to be open-minded, only accept that when you agree with their viewpoint. I thought being open-minded allow for a diversity of viewpoints through rigorous discussion or debate. So, I've become leery of those who claim...

Book Review 19: The Christian Imagination edited by Leland Ryken

I wrote a review for Imagine by Steve Turner and said that book along with the Bible and a couple of others that every Christian who loves the arts and literature should have in their library. Well, I'm adding The Christian Imagination edited by Leland Ryken to that...

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"All life, high and low, sordid and noble, vile and pure, is the province of art. Surely if the Bible is to be our standard we must admit that nothing lay outside the province of the inspired writers.  A Christian writer cannot be a significant writer if his vision...

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"Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment....is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can't provide that, we may be excused from inquiry into its higher qualities."  (C.S. Lewis) "I got into this row,...

Book Review 18: S. by John Updike

What happens when a woman leaves her former life behind in order to seek a spiritual awakening? Well, that's the scenario in the novel S. by John Updike. S stands for Sarah Worth, the main character in the novel.  She is a New England housewife who decides to leave...

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