Editor’s Note: Burnside contributor Chad Gibbs recently traveled to the twelve schools of the SEC to explore the intersection of faith and fandom. Chad recounts his journey in “God and Football” (Zondervan). The book is funny and insightful no matter what conference you belong to. It...

A few months after this site started up, which seems like 10 years ago, I received an emailed article about golf from some Alabamian named Chad Gibbs. “No one cares about golf,” I muttered.  But I read it anyway, and it was surprisingly funny, so we ran it. Then Chad sent another article,...

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...

Editor’s Note: In celebration of the release of, as Larry Shallenberger puts it, “Burnside writer, sage, and smart aleck” John Blase’s first book, here’s an interview between John and the enigmatic Thomas Marshfield. After you read it, go to Amazon.com or Powells or something...

Susan Isaac’s “Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Personal Memoir” is now shipping from Amazon.com. Giddy up. I’ve had this pre-ordered for months now. Susan provides Burnside with funny and wisdom. The stable of writers, authors, journalists, baristas, and other horse...

(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...

Burnside is blessed with a whole slew of talented contributors. Sometimes, to our utter delight, those contributors become published, and some area already established authors. Our to goal is to interview each and every one for this feature, which we’ve entitled “Burnside Sells Out”....

When you work on a site like Burnside, there are very few things more exciting than watching one of your fellow writers get published. We’ve been fortunate enough to witness a few this year, like Susan Isaacs, and we’ve been blessed with a number of already-published contributors. So this...