Everyday Moments or AI
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I wrote on Pope Francis's words and challenges us to embrace everyday moments made holy instead of letting AI take the creative lead.
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Books Read in January
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Some months every single thing you read is fantastic. This was one of those months so I had to share.
Read MoreReimagining Creativity
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Honored to write the feature story for February’s Our Sunday Visitor . I wrote about how artistic virtues can help build a culture of creativity in the church.
Read MoreRapt Interview
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Rapt hosts leaders and servants, preachers and professors, writers and filmmakers, makers and musicians and mystics—imperfect people who create and adventure with God. We talked about identity, personal struggles, my new book, Undaunted Joy, the Holy Spirit, daily spiritual practices, favorite resources that equip me to follow Jesus more closely, and the future. You just might be surprised!
Read MoreNon-Fiction Zoom Workshop for Busy People
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Details:
+ Wednesdays in February 4-5pm PST
+Cost $125 (Paid via Venmo)
+ Limit 8 participants
+Participant will turn in up to 2500 words by Jan 29.
+Each week will open with a generative prompt or craft talk. Followed by workshopping two of the pieces each week. I will let you know which ones they are so that each participant will have read it and made notes for the writer.
Read MorePilgrimage to a Monastery
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I wrote on my yearly pilgrimage to Surrey, UK to pray with the monks. I daydream about this place. It is featured greatly in my upcoming book.
Read MoreHe is Right Here
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I saw a reel on Instagram showing pictures of Jesus present in our everyday lives. There was Jesus, sitting at one of those low Kindergarten tables, in a much-too-small-for-him chair, coloring with a small child. He looked as if he were having fun.
Read MoreEvent: Keynote Speaker at Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
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I am pleased to announce that this Friday, November 15, I will be the Keynote Speaker at the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature at the University of Dallas. Join me at 5pm as I speak on the topic “May We Never Lose Our Sense of Wonder.”
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The Family Cheerleader and God for Us
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Reframing changes everything. When I know God is rooting for me, I don’t need anyone else to. Being my family’s cheerleader is no longer fueled by me but by God.
Read MoreFinding God at the Airport
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You may know I love to travel. This is why writing about Finding God in the Airport for Loyola Press was a delight.
Read MoreReview: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”
This is the premise of Oscar Wilde’s compact novel The Picture of Dorian Grey.
Read MoreVacation Reads Under 200 Pages
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I get it. You think you are going to read War and Peace on your vacation. You think of all the time you’ll have at the airport, on the plane, waiting in line for tickets, but the reality is that you’ll see the Barbie movie is available on the in-flight entertainment system and you’d rather stare and quietly judge other families, than read.
Read MoreThe Audacity of Creating Something Beautiful
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I wrote about finding God in a quotidian painting like Jean Siméon Chardin’s Soap Bubbles for Ignatian Spirituality.
Read MoreCover Reveal for Undaunted Joy
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We have a cover reveal!
Undaunted Joy: The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight will be out April 22, 2025 with Zondervan.
Undaunted Joy is available for Pre-Order
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Don’t worry—this isn’t the cover. The cover will be revealed soon. But the book Undaunted Joy: The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight is now available to order.
Read MoreGod in the Details
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Then I saw it: tiny specks of dust floating in the shaft of light. There seemed to be millions of them! ...I was a superhero with super-amazing vision to see such tiny, little specks of dust.
Read MoreAnnunciation: A Call to Faith in a Broken World by Sally Read
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Parenting has always been difficult. Yet in the last few years, as a Christian, attempting to guide my children toward holiness has become increasingly more difficult. My children are inundated daily with lies about who they are and their place in this world.
It was in the midst of this frustration that I found Sally Read’s Annunciation: A Call to Faith in a Broken World.
Read MoreApostolic Joy
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“I convert because the Catholic Church is apostolic. We can trace Pope Francis all the way to St. Peter and all the Apostles; I want to be a part of that.” She was absolutely beaming when she told me this. As someone who grew up in a church founded in the 1970s, I understood. To be part of something with all that history made me feel connected to the panorama of the Church throughout time.
In the book, First Belong to God, Austen Ivereigh quotes Pope Francis when he writes, “Joy is apostolic. It is ‘a clear indictor of grace.’”
Read MoreJoy Books
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When I decided that I wanted to write a book on Joy, (Undaunted Joy: The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight coming 2025 at Zondervan) I started to look for writers to be in conversation with. I read books already written on joy and then also books that were similar to what I wanted to do. What were these writers doing? What did I want to emulate? What did I want to do differently?
You might find a book or two to inspire you from this list. They are all joyful and thoughtful texts which I will return to and continue to have “conversations with” for years to come.
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