You might have noticed that a few months ago I rolled out a new link in these emails that enables you to schedule a 15-minute Friday chat with me. I am happy to report that this has been a wildly successful idea, both in terms of the time slots filling up and the chats being delightful. I am hearing about ministries, article ideas, and life stories, and sometimes also sharing a bit about myself or the magazine. It is already one of my favorite parts of the week; schedule a chat with me!
It’s extra exciting when I can meet our readers and writers in person, and another opportunity is coming up next month at the Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina. I hope to see not only many CC subscribers, but also some of our writers—like Voices columnist Julian DeShazier (performing hip-hop as J.Kwest), last year’s annual CC lecturer Brian McLaren, Amy-Jill Levine, and more! Plus I will be teaming up with fellow CC editor Jessica Mesman and Queering Contemplation host/author Cassidy Hall to lead a session on how to get published.
“Our congregation gained a good few worshipers from conservative backgrounds who wanted something more inclusive but whose theology hadn’t yet caught up with their ethics. I wanted to give them a dismantling and reconstructing exercise.”
“The movie weaves scenes from Flannery O’Connor’s fiction seamlessly into the flow of the film. We watch her observe ordinary details of life around her—the way a child makes faces on the bus, the unusual details on someone’s hat—then the scene shifts and we are inside her imagination, one of her stories beginning to take shape.”
“Describing hair as coarse and curly—or wooly—in the tenth century BC was the highest compliment. Hair that is full and textured is attributed not only to God but also to the woman in the Song of Songs.”
