Posts Tagged ‘Interview’

David Bazan Levels With All Sorts of People

On a sweaty June night, in the Byward Market of the Nation’s Capital, I had the chance to chat with someone who I’ve wanted to interview for a long time – David Bazan. Due to his insane touring schedule and rigorous work ethic, he is a hard man to track down (as I’ve been trying for...

July 8th, 2011 | Music | Read More

It’s Not All About Rob Bell: An Interview With a Member of Mars Hill Church

Now that the dust has settled from the controversy over Rob Bell’s latest book that rocked the Christian world, and inspired not one, not two, but three Burnside posts, I figured it was time to approach the subject that very few people (myself included) took into consideration when writing their...

April 15th, 2011 | Arts, Books, Featured | Read More

Richard St. Ofle Is No Wolf

I kind of hated Richard St. Ofle when I first started reading his autobiographical debut, No Wolf. I turned page after page, mad at the narrator–and consequently, by virtue of the genre, the author. From there, I quickly made the jump to the male population as a whole. That might sound...

August 20th, 2010 | Arts, Books, Featured | Read More

Rob Bell 2.0 (or Where Are the Artists?)

It’s been over a year since we last spoke to mega-church phenomenon Rob Bell, pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Today, Burnside Writers Collective correspondent John Wofford talks about the completion of the popular Nooma teaching series, Bell’s reaction to recent developments...

November 19th, 2009 | Essays, Featured | Read More

“Ultimately, We Believe In A More Loving Church”

As the debate over LGBT rights rages on, rising statistical trends show growing support for the gay community in the church. At the forefront of this movement is the Gay Christian Network, a non-profit organization that has worked with the likes of Tony and Peggy Campolo and Canadian religious program...

October 6th, 2009 | Essays, Featured | Read More

An Interview with Jordan Green

The intersection of Burnside and SW Stark in downtown Portland. In 2005, I Googled Don Miller’s name after reading Blue Like Jazz. This led me to BWC. Ten minutes later, I knew I’d found a home. Big names like Donald Miller, Lauren Winner, and Derek Webb drew me in, but I stayed because of Jordan...

September 18th, 2009 | Featured | Read More

Interview with Donald Miller

Donald Miller is the best-selling author of Blue Like Jazz, Searching for God Knows What, Through Painted Deserts and To Own a Dragon. He is currently writing his fifth book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, which explores the principles of story-telling in our lives. A feature film is in the works...

July 11th, 2009 | Essays | Read More

Father Emmanuel Katongole Responds

I wrote the Summer Reading Guide for the May/June issue of Relevant magazine. In conjunction with that article, I conducted short interviews with Makoto Fujimura, our own Susan Isaacs, and Father Emmanuel Katongole, who is a Catholic priest, an associate professor at Duke Divinity School, and the author...

April 24th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

Technic-al Difficulties

Jacques Ellul’s seminal Presence of the Kingdom has two primary points. The first focuses on politics, and argues Christians should not participate in government whenever possible (I’ve oversimplified here). The second topic is the concept of “technics”, the idea technology has...

February 3rd, 2009 | Blog | Read More

Burnside Sells Out: David A. Zimmerman

(Editor’s Note: For this edition of Burnside Sells Out, Larry Shallenberger offered to interview David Zimmerman, author of Deliver Us from Me-Ville and Comic Book Character: Unleashing the Hero in Us All.) BWC: David, you wrote a book about your narcissism, how you managed to escape it, and how...

January 22nd, 2009 | Burnside Sells Out | Read More