Karen Spears Zacharias has a thing for trailers.  She grew up, found Jesus, fell in love, and even delivered her first child in a trailer.  She recently published her fourth book, Will Jesus Buy Me A Double Wide?, and took time out of her busy book tour schedule to answer that question and share her...

You don’t need me to tell you to read Anne Lamott’s new novel, Imperfect Birds, because you probably will, regardless. And I’ll do my best not to ruin anything for you. Out in April from Riverhead Books (a member of the Penguin Group), Imperfect Birds is the third installment in the story of Rosie...

Prior to this week, my last airline experience was in August; I was flying back from Phoenix. As I boarded the big old jet airliner, I found my row and seat, and chuckled. I had been placed, strangely enough, beside two striking young ladies. As I struggled to fit my one carry-on into the overhead,...

Here’s last week’s New York Times bestsellers list.  It’s a standard list, for the most part.  There’s the Freakonomics guy.  There’s two from Malcolm Gladwell.  Ted Kennedy is battling it out with Glenn Beck.  There’s John Krakauer and Augusten Burroughs and...

“One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I looked up and saw a black-rimmed college student reading a most mysterious book.  I peaked at the title.  The title was in English.  After seeing Chinese all day...

True fact: you will not find two writers as dissimilar as C.S. Lewis and Chuck Palahniuk so proximal as in this essay. You might be surprised at authors I list among my favorites. Yes, I appreciate the father of modern Christian apologetics, the genius behind Narnia, right alongside the man who gave...

Last night, Dan Gibson and I (along with some other lovely folks) had the privilege of seeing the sole Arizona stop on Donald Miller’s Million Miles Book Tour.  Burnsider Susan Isaacs was excellent in her one-woman show taken directly from the pages of her hilarious memoir, Angry Conversations...

I met Tom Davis a few years ago at K2 Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. I was there to check out the cool warehouse-church with the beach sandal billboard; Tom was there to tell the church about suffering orphans, young girls entering the sex-trade, and a generation decimated by HIV/Aids. Three minutes...

Around a year and a half ago, I was approached by David Sanford, founder of Sanford Communications1 out of Portland.  David was working on a project with Tyndale, a New Living Translation of the Bible that would feature art and book excerpts from throughout the history of Christianity, as well as a...

If you weren’t already aware, Mark Driscoll is the pastor of one of the fastest growing, most exciting, kick-ass churches in America (Mars Hill in Seattle, not to be confused with Rob Bell’s Mars Hill outside Grand Rapids, because you should never, ever confuse the two), he’ll tell...