Lo: There are six injustices a righteous author cannot tolerate. No, strike that. There are seven. Seven is the number of abominations which mightily chafe the jockeys of aspiring authors: Info dumps, split infinitives, idiots with agents, self-publishing success stories, clichés, and ham-handed symbolism....

Faith and art… Shouldn’t this suck?   It is probably safe to say that most films that will open nationwide on April 13 did not crowd source their funding. Blue Like Jazz did. The film, based on the NY Times bestselling collection of essays on Christian Spirituality (seriously), lost...

(Note: Penny Carothers is the Social Justice Editor here at Burnside Writers Collective.) “Wow – you make me look like hot shit!” This is the text message I sent to Don Miller, in 2007, after I read through the screenplay of the film adaptation of "Penny" and "Don" on the...

Burnside contributor Christian Piatt’s new memoir PregMANcy: a Dad, a Little Dude and a Due Date has just been released. You can read an excerpt here.  By some coincidence, an entertaining trailer for the book is now posted on his blog. Check it out, and check out his new book.

It’s been quiet around here about the upcoming Blue Like Jazz movie. This was not intentional, and rest assured at least this writer has IMDB at the ready for its April 13 release. (This writer is also suppressing obscene amounts of envy forthose of you who have already seen it, but this writer...

“I cannot relate to this at all,” said the young woman with brown eyes full of curiosity. “I’ve never been told I couldn’t do something just because I was female. My family and the church I grew up in affirmed women to be everything God has called us to be. I never experienced what you’re...

In 2004, Russ Masterson went on a fast. It wasn’t a fast from sugar or alcohol or the internet or cell phones. He fasted the old-fashioned way. For forty days, Russ Masterson didn’t eat food. Russ chronicles that fast in 40 Days Without Food: Divine Goodness to a Starving Soul, an e-book...

Richard Dahlstrom is the first to admit that his story is not one of those faith-making tales of abuse or addiction and God’s eventual redemption.  It’s the story of growing up in the proverbial healthy Christian home where the norm was baseball games, good grades and Saturday night spaghetti....

We warned you we’d be pimping this book thing pretty hard.  If you didn’t get the memo, the three of us wrote a book called Besides the Bible – 100 Books That Have, Should, or Will Change Christian Culture.  It’s being heralded the greatest book about books ever written, or...

(Editor’s Note: This is our third excerpt from Besides the Bible – 100 Books That Have, Should or Will Change Christian Culture.  This time, John Pattison writes on Shusaku Endo’s Silence. You can learn more about our book, Besides the Bible, here and here. You can buy it here.) Francis...