Writing, or content creation, is a lot like picking raspberries. If one picks the bushes clean of its best fruit every evening, like magic, when he returns the following evening he’ll find the bushes loaded with ripe fruit again. It will be as if the bushes had never been picked. With proper water and sunshine, […]
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Writing as an Exercise in Wisdom
Flannery O’Connor once quipped something to the effect, “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” There is a truth to this statement that extends beyond one’s personal journal, though that is often a great place to start writing. This is also true of stories, poems, and essays. […]
The Art of Writing, Value Creation, and Cultural Progress
One challenge that often plagues writers is a natural default to express only personal interests. Quite often, writers write because there is something in their percolator they want to get out into the world. Of course, there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. But, if writers are not careful, what they create will not be relevant […]
A Primer for Thinking and Writing About History
Anyone who has contemplated researching and writing about the past would benefit from a careful reading of Livy’s History of Rome. In his introduction, he offers a compelling apology for studying history: There is this exceptionally beneficial and fruitful advantage to be derived from the study of the past, that you see, set in the […]
Three Tips to Writing Interesting Work that Actually Gets Read
If you want people to read and follow your work, you have to be able to write something interesting. And isn’t that what all of us writers want–to write interesting work? While there are a lot of us calling ourselves writers, how many of us are doing really interesting work. Those who are doing interesting work seem […]
Five Valid Reasons to Start Writing (Blogging)
According to worldometers.com, when I wrote this blog post, there had already been 3.9 million posts published that same day. Wouldn’t it seem superfluous to add another post to the already congested blogosphere? It’s a valid question, I suppose. So here is where I offer five valid reasons for writing (specifically starting a blog)—or why you shouldn’t give it […]
Nine Tips that will Set Your Writing Apart
If you’re a writer, you have a message to share. If you are not a writer, somewhere along the way you will be. You will need to write a term paper, a personal letter, or some kind of office correspondence. But you will need to write. At the very least, it’s likely you already text, […]
Writing and Spiritual Formation
In July I took a sabbatical from the pulpit–and from writing–to catch up on my graduate studies, spend some time with my family, minister to my health, and to really seek the Lord for how I should proceed in ministry. I had been wrestling through some personal issues of vision and direction. Mainly, I felt […]
Writing Services
This page is currently under construction… Soon, I will be offering some select writing and publishing services… check back often or watch for the announcement.
Praxis: Practical Books for Educating Classically
The final list of books in my top 50 books on Classical Christian Education focuses on the practice of implementing and administering a classical education.