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Having trouble with a few last minute gifts for those friends or family members who seem to have it all? The key to a meaningful present is not the price tag or the wrapper, but recognizing what matters to the intended recipient. Here are a few ideas that may reduce your stress and truly resonate …
By Becka Choat Ah, what a challenge Chief Muse Kelly set for us this month – to introduce four of our favorite poets! Having been blessed to be part of this fellowship for several years now, I knew that my fellow Muses would speak up for some of my own best beloveds, but I don’t …
On Writing Lyric Poetry By Holly Ordway Erato is the Muse of lyric poetry. So, what exactly is lyric poetry, anyway? It’s the counter-balance to the epic, in a sense: the epic poem tells a big story, a narrative with lots of action, while the lyric is a smaller-scale form, more personal, focusing on some …
It is my great pleasure to welcome Karise Gililland as a special All Nine guest blogger. Karise describes herself as a Texas mama, teacher, writer, and occasional cat wrangler/hamster hunter. She is currently pursuing her Master of Arts in Apologetics at Houston Baptist University. Grateful thanks to Dr. Holly Ordway for introducing us. ***** Answering the Stars By …
File this under “you just never know.” Back in October of 2009, when my now nearly-nine-year-old was three, I tweeted this: Over the next few days, I tweeted several other senryu on the subject of prayer, all of them echoing the phrase “How God talks to me” or “How I talk to God.” I skipped …
By Crystal Hurd I am a recent “convert,” if you wish to call it that. Not to Christianity, of course. I was born and raised in the south, where Christianity is as popular as iced tea and Elvis and SEC football. I grew up a Baptist and have experienced it in its many forms. My …
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By Doug Jackson On September 13, 1929, Ernest Hemingway wrote to his pal F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Summer is a discouraging time to work — you don’t feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper." For Papa, who later asserted that "all stories, continued far …
Malcolm Guite is a poet and singer-songwriter living in Cambridge, England. He is a priest, chaplain, teacher and author. His books include What Do Christians Believe? and Faith Hope and Poetry. His latest collection of sonnets, Sounding the Seasons, has recently been released in a Kindle edition. Kevin Belmonte interviewed Malcolm for this week’s Fridays with …
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An Uplifting “Descent” By Andrew Lazo In the summer of 2011, it fell to me to welcome the talented and award-winning singer / songwriter Steve Bell to the C. S. Lewis Summer Institute (aka “Oxbridge”). He’d just arrived from Canada; we met and decided to walk around Oxford. Over a pint, we discovered many …
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