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It’s Screen-Free Week, America, which means it’s time for fun summer reading! Here are three new YA novels I’m excited about, two of which release today. Remember: it can’t really be dystopia with such great reading options.
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This weekend I led several dozen women in trying lectio divina for the first time. Having that experience while also reading T.M. Luhrmann’s fascinating new book When God Talks Back prompted me to ask: What do Christians mean when we say we receive guidance from God?
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Lately, when people ask me how I'm doing, the default answer I have to choke back is, "Busy." I quell that impulse because a) who's not insanely busy these days? and b) I'm trying to cultivate some tranquility. For me, a confirmed but recovering workaholic, the "busy" answer just doesn't represent the person I want to become.
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What happens when a group of modern LDS women attempt an ancient monastic spiritual practice, reading scripture in a contemplative way? This weekend I'm going to find out.
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It's that time of year when many Mormon women despair of ever being treated like equal partners in church (hello, onslaught of Mother's Day pedestal rhetoric!). But I recently took heart from taking a walk down memory lane with a 1948 magazine article that reminded me how far women have come.
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Rule #1: Give your kids weird names that will get them pummeled on the playground but will serve the family’s greater interest in the centuries to come. Gwyneth Paltrow’s really on to something here.
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For the last three days, I’ve been soaking up the wonderful atmosphere of the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College, a biannual event for writers, publishers, and—best of all—readers. Here are some highlights.
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Sci-fi/horror/fantasy writer Steven L. Peck has had an incredible year. Here he talks about his new novella A Short Stay in Hell, reveals what he's learning about book marketing, and explains how a platform as a blogger helped to launch his writing career.
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Author and spiritual director David G. Benner says that oratio, the third state of lectio divina, is not just formal prayer but responding to God--and there are many different ways to do that.
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I'm getting ready to attend my sixth (!) Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing, where religion and literature collide in the loveliest, most powerful ways. Check out this year's lineup of speakers, including Marilynne Robinson, Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Safron Foer.
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Jana Riess is the author of Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor and several other books. She is currently immersed in a multiyear Twitter project called The Twible. (It’s the Bible, now with 68% more humor!)
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