I love the story of the Inklings, a loosely defined group of writers who met often to  read drafts of current projects to each other. The most famous members of the group were Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, but there were others. Sometimes they would offer suggestions to each other, and sometimes they would listen to […]

We spent the weekend traveling. I didn’t have my chair in the corner with the Moleskine journal and the light over my shoulder and 6:05 am on the clock and my black Bible and my one special pen or my other special pen and mug of coffee. I had the journal and the Bible and the […]

This story is more than two decades in the making. I’ll try to be brief. There is a newspaper in my dresser drawer. It’s from January 12, 1997.  On it are written three words: “Dad minor stroke.” I wrote them to Nancy while on a phone call, hearing that my dad had suffered the first of […]

A couple weeks ago I asked you how you read the Bible. We’ll be looking at what I learned from you from time to time. Here’s an email from a friend who translated the Bible for a group of people who didn’t have it. After more than sixty years of study, here’s what Don says: […]