Posts Tagged ‘Jordan Green’

It’s Been Awhile

Hello, Burnside! It’s been some time since I posted a Letter from the Editor. A year ago, I got the itch to follow a dream. I’ve always wanted to bring Burnside into the publishing world, and advances in book production technology finally meant that goal was reasonable. It’s been a...

September 12th, 2012 | Editorial, Featured, Letters from the Editor | Read More

Editorial Notes

Burnsiders, It’s been a while since I’ve said hello, and I apologize for that. I thought I’d give an update on what’s been going on around here. I’ll make it a numbered list, because that’s always nice and easy. 1. Three of Burnside’s editors, along with a good...

March 7th, 2011 | Editorial, Featured, Letters from the Editor | Read More

Interview with Dan Gibson, John Pattison and Jordan Green

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...

December 2nd, 2010 | Books, Burnside Sells Out, Featured | Read More

BtB Excerpt – The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, by Mark Noll

(Editor’s Note: Remember that marketing onslaught I told you about? Here’s the first salvo: Dan Gibson’s essay on Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. You can learn more about our book, Besides the Bible, here and here. You can buy it here.) As a writer, I always...

October 15th, 2010 | Books, Burnside Sells Out, Featured | Read More

Bow to Me; I’m English!

(This is a rerun of a post we ran on the Burnside Blog last year.) Wandering the wastelands of Facebook today, I stumbled across the status update of Michael Radcliffe, a contributor to Burnside on occasion: “Kiss me; I’m British-German and lack the scrappy, drunken and witty insecurity...

March 17th, 2010 | Blog, Featured | Read More

The Christian Speakeasy

Jordan Green and I had an idea to put together an album of short conversations between us. We may receive some angry comments. We call it The Christian Speakeasy. You can listen to the entire piece (40 minutes) in the player below, Podcast: Download or download it from itunes HERE. So spread...

February 16th, 2010 | Featured, Humor | Read More

The Worst Nativity Figurine of All Time

First I hear about this great holiday gift idea (via JesusNeedsNewPR): Then Larry Shallenberger saved this figurine from almost being used in his church’s nativity set: Larry titled this image “Why Shepherds Need Jesus”: Larry and Jordan don’t want me to turn this picture into...

December 24th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

Josh McDowell Prayed 4 Me 2 Day

The first article we ran on this new site…or one of the first, anyway…was a diary of this years International Christian Retail Show in Denver. The opening speaker at this year’s convention was Josh McDowell. I didn’t know who Josh McDowell was at the time, but I wasn’t...

December 22nd, 2009 | Blog, Featured | Read More

It Should Not Have Taken 9 Months for Me to Read David Foster Wallace

Last September, Dan Gibson texted me: “David Foster Wallace killed himself.” I am ashamed to admit this, but my response was “Who?” Maybe it’s the milquetoast name, which could be the moniker of any white male, from serial killer to land baron. I’m sure, at some point,...

June 16th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

Expectations of God

I mentioned my friend Dave Wenzel a few weeks ago in this post. I met Dave about a year and a half ago, and he’s been a great friend ever since. Dave is a sweet, kind guy who takes life head on. He’s one of those guys who seems to have a genuine joie de vivre which would be annoying in...

June 15th, 2009 | Blog | Read More