Thank you so much to all of you who commented on the “Characters of Color, Christian Fiction, and the Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn…Giveaway!” post last week. I’ve never had quite so much discussion on this blog! It was wonderful to hear all your perspectives and insights. I’m still learning so much about all this […]
I sat on the carpet in their living room, with these friends in their home on the Navajo Nation, and shared my heart. Last September, I’d just come from the ACFW conference in Indianapolis and then stopped to visit friends in New Mexico and Arizona. While staying with Mark Charles and his […]
Would you like to travel back in time to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake? Well, maybe not in real life, but how about in the pages of a book? Author Karen Barnett‘s second historical novel, Out of the Ruins, released just this spring (following her very successful 1920s suspense Mistaken), and […]
Last week my friend Jennifer Major presented a question I’ve been pondering: “When did you know the story owned YOU? Jennifer and I both write about Navajo history in our novels and have been blessed with the same Navajo/Anglo family to take us under their wings and teach us much. So today, we […]
Continuing the conversation from last week’s “Friendship as a Key to Racial Reconciliation.” A few months ago, I saw the Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom movie with my dad. What a powerful story of a courageous and hugely influential man. But one thing that struck me from the movie’s title was that Nelson […]
Recently the racism in Donald Stirling’s alleged remarks has created a bit of a media uproar. For me, it’s been another reminder, as with Trayvon Martin, that while we’ve made progress, racial tensions are far from resolved in America. And it’s gotten me thinking. If Mr. Stirling did indeed make these remarks, I can’t help […]
Hello, friends. So…I’ve been wondering lately how to make my blog better, how to serve and connect with readers more. But I’m not quite sure the best way to do that. So since YOU are my readers, I’d love to hear from you…what kinds of posts you like the best and what types you’d […]
It’s been a privilege and wonderful learning experience to be part of New Mexico writer Norma Gail’s book launch team this spring for her contemporary inspirational romance novel, Land of My Dreams. I’ve just recently gotten my own e-copy to read, and the story is truly blessing me, the message of “where God is when […]
My last semester of college, one of my apartment-mates invited me and another of our roommates to a special meeting of our campus Black Student Association, of which she was a member. An African-American English professor was leading a special program, and since our other roommate and I were English majors, she thought we might […]
I’ll confess I haven’t always been the most comfortable around people with disabilities. I often don’t know what to say, what to do. Sometimes I might smile awkwardly, other times look away. Through the Dickens story Nicholas Nickleby and the character of Smike, as well as working with students at our local community college, the […]
