Safety has become a very important concept in Christian entertainment. Pick up any Christian parenting magazine that talks about healthy entertainment for your kids, any online guide to what entertainment Christians should or shouldn't indulge in, and you'll find it can almost all be summed up as, "anything outside this very specific zone is unhealthy …
It's nice when you like your day job and someone asks if you'd like to talk about it. So, when Writers Chat asked if I'd like to give a virtual presentation about Search Engine Optimization (i.e. making Google like your work) I didn't have to think long. I'm relatively new to SEO Editing (freelanced as …
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If you enjoyed my previous posts about the play Macbeth - the essay I contributed to An Unexpected Journal, where you can find it online or in print - you can hear me present about this week. I will be presenting at the Inkling Folk Fellowship, giving my essay and perhaps some new insights on …
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During the summer of 2022, something I never expected fell into my lap. I had contacted the Owen Barfield Literary Estate about getting permission to use a photograph for an article about Owen Barfield. For those who don't know, Owen Barfield was one of C..S. Lewis' oldest friends (they met when they were both students …
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About a decade ago, I went through a season of writing poems. It was instigated by the fact I was looking into college scholarships and discovered a website that gave scholarships for slam poetry. I wrote at least 10 poems and shared them in various places before I realized that the things I was writing …
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Last week, I shared an article I initially wrote for a Fellowship & Fairydust Christmas collection. While that article didn't make the final cut, one article did, a memory of listening to Christmas music out of my parent's stereo system. This being the Christmas season, Fellowship & Fairydust decided to republish the article on their …
Back in 2021, I wrote a review of The Most Reluctant Convert directed by Norman Stone. I think I can safely say it was an unusual review, if for no other reason because I didn't find the movie as strange as some of my friends found it. But I'd seen the one-man stage play it …
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I wrote in one of my last posts about my funny journey from knowing barely anything about Shakespeare to writing a 6,000ish word essay on Macbeth movies for the latest issue of An Unexpected Journal. On December 17, 2022, I got to take part in a conversation with the other contributors about their essays, as …
This is a lot more leg than I’m comfortable showing, I thought as I switched into my work uniform. It’s Christmas 2018. I am working as a waiter at a Christmas feast put on at a castle in Colorado built by a Civil War general. My uniform was breeches, calf-high white socks, leather shoes, a …
I am not by any standard a Shakespeare expert. I had some exposure to the Bard in eighth grade English when we all sat down to watch via Kenneth Branagh's 2006 film As You Like It... without having read the play. Given that this movie shifts the material in some surprising ways (moving the setting …
I had the interesting experience of discovering The Screwtape Letters as a play before I read the book. I saw it in 2013, a production by Fellowship for the Performing Arts (thanks to the magic of online archives, I know the exact date I saw the play). At some point in the years between 2013 …
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