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The Twenty-Third Transversed
Today’s post is inspired and fundamentally relies on the Twenty Third Psalm. This poem is an application and transversed wording in free verse for recent circumstances. (Transversed* means situated...
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Gathered Again
Would you be interested in a hymn to celebrate the church gathered again? Because I wrote one and my dear friend, Chris Schelp, wrote music for it. It’s called “Come, Gathered Again.” I know...
View ArticleHere I Write: Canceled
If you registered then you’ve heard. The Lutheran writers’ conference, Here I Write, has been canceled. Sad but true. BUT if you’re on Facebook you can head over to Katie Schuermann’s Facebook page...
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Lutheran Library
I have a great thing to tell you about today! LutheranLibrary.org. A Lutheran gentlemen set Lutheran Library up “to make available solid and encouraging material to strengthen believers in Christ.” An...
View ArticleSigh
An Internet outage for most of yesterday kept me off my blog, so I’ve got nothing but excuses for you today. Oh, and an even deeper longing for the weekend! Wishing you all peace, health, and the...
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Writers’ Workshop for the Ladies!
LWML is offering a writers’ workshop for the ladies! Has this happened before? What a lovely idea! It will be in person October 24–26, 2020 at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. Registration will run from...
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2020 Lutheran Homeschool Conference
I know, I know. I lure you in with the promise of a blog to encourage writers and then I share all this extra stuff too. Still. Have you heard that there will be a FREE Lutheran Homeschool conference?...
View ArticleOh. Huh.
I hope you’ve gathered that I want to encourage. I especially hope to support Lutheran authors and have gotten pretty generous with reading & reviewing Lutheran books of all sorts. But what happens...
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Finding Faith in Fiction
Finding Faith in Fiction: we could do a lot with a title like that! The Canadian Lutheran Church, a sister church to the LCMS, has a great issue out with exactly that title. Go here and read it! The...
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And Take They Our Life
My summer reading is varying pretty wildly by this point. Oklahoma is hot. The family needs a vacation, and there are so many boiling-point topics that I’m just about fried. (Mixed metaphor, but I...
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Who Owns a Pastor’s Sermons?
Today I’m sharing an article on who owns a pastor’s sermons. Perhaps an odd topic to some, but it highlights something interesting, in my opinion. While some want individual ownership, and while...
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LCCN
A while back, I knew an author was asking about getting a Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN). What is that? What does it mean? An LCCN is free & relatively easy to get. You must have your...
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One and All Rejoice
CPH’s latest children’s hymnal, One and All Rejoice, is now available. I thought we could temporarily one and all rejoice about the CPH Bible and Confession sales, too. So, the One and All Rejoice...
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My First One Star Review
Welp, a few weeks ago I got my first one star review. It wasn’t hurtful, thankfully. Just someone returning Whisper, Whisper because it wasn’t what they expected. “It’s very specific, not just...
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Memories of the Walk-Out
Rev. Ted Mayes is gathering memories of the walk-out. He hopes to to collect them prior to the 50-year anniversary, which is in a few years. Here is the text I’ve seen from him. Admittedly, I’m...
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Christmas in July Sale
Ad Crucem is hosting a Christmas in July Sale. As you probably remember, Ad Crucem offers selections from various Lutheran authors and has some tremendously beautiful things! MOST ITEMS are on sale,...
View ArticleCommunication Card
Here’s a very handy communication card, put together by Bethesda Lutheran Communities. In short, someone who can’t communicate well can try to point to how he or she is feeling or to what he or she...
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Recommended Reading by Age
If you’ve followed me long, you know I have a thing about lists. Listing resources, especially. So I’m trying to update my list of Recommended Reading by Age so that parents can have easy titles to get...
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Endorsement for Ecclesial Poetry!
Yay! I got another endorsement for Ecclesial Poetry, the book of poetry I published last October! I hope you know about the Lutheran Book Review site. God bless Rev. Paul Cain and what he shares there!...
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Flash Book Sale – July 2020 only
I don’t mention it often, but I have some pretty random titles I sell. Go here to see my shop and read more to get a 40% off coupon for my flash book sale. This sale will run through the rest of July...
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