Y’all I am so GRATEFUL that Steve Prince illustrated my Brazos Press book #whydotheheathenrage . We’re bringing him to Pepperdine University this year. I cannot more highly recommend his work!

He sent me the linocuts & the scribbles on the envelope were too fun!

steveprincestudio.com

Book launch whimsy, to celebrate Looking Up coming out this week:

Find me anytime, anyplace at the #ffwgr and I’ll draw you a personalized #BadlyDrawnBird . Catch me early enough and I might have book swag stickers, too!

Calvin Center for Faith & Writing

“We need to keep talking despite everything—and everyone—conspiring to tear us apart.

The words we use in our friendships matter.“

Good words from Tim Hoiland. 👇🏼

Each person, from every ethnic and racial background, has a story to share. All our voices belong. - Prasanta Verma, MBA MPH #beyondethnicloneliness #identity #belonging prasantaverma.com

Virtually every single time I ever write anything I spend most of the time I'm working on it feeling like it's pretty terrible and it's never going to work. Then, finally, it comes together, and I am so pleased! And then I go and start a new project and it is so terrible. . . .

Look what flew in! Courtney Ellis 🎈 it's beautiful!!! I can't wait to read it!
InterVarsity Press #lookingup

Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times is now available for preorder.
Tom Holland called it “luminous” and Katherine May “rich and soul searching”

Do support your local bookshop if you can!

linktr.ee/fullyalivebook

Suitably Lenten

“Blessed are those who stay faithful to the ways God inspires them to go and who do not, in order to please others, live with an uneasy conscience in the place where others believe security is to be found.”

—Óscar Romero (15 August 1917 – 24 March 1980)

Yes. Laura M. Fabrycky calls the psalms “emotion processing technology”. The ritual of reading the words of people from multiple millennia ago struggling and grieving and longing and raging really does steady me. Hello, humanity. Seems we’ve always been like this (&always loved).

It feels like teasing, since you can't officially read this book for another 7 months, but it now has a landing page and preorders are open. ivpress.com/mothers-childr…

In these times when so many Christians are drawn to anti-democratic movements & authoritarian leaders it’s important to understand what democracy is, its biblical basis, & why a commitment to democracy is a confessional matter. This piece does just that saet.ac.uk/Christianity/D…

“Instead of climbing up to heaven to find the eternal Word you have to grasp that the eternal Word has come down from heaven to find you. And this happens when you see yourself not as a boldly questing intellectual mystic but as a sick person in desperate need of healing” RW p132

I loved this book and its gentle invitation to talk with God about all that is perplexing, hard, and painful. These are immensely human prayers.

Can’t wait to crack open Looking Up by Courtney Ellis 🎈 . I’ll be reading this one in my chair by the birdfeeder.

Poets exist to keep philosophers and theologians humble

Day 14 in #aBirdFromTheLord .

Only yard birds again since I’ve been working from home trying to kick this bug. But here’s the thing about yard birds: they’re so darned faithful. And they’re right there.

I’m grateful.

The Valentine’s Day x Ash Wednesday collab this year is producing some v niche memes

The best! Grateful for Laura M. Fabrycky & The Trinity Forum