Some weeks ago, Dylan Peterson published a post on our old blog entitled “The Cost of Blasphemy (Priceless)”. Dylan was new to our site.  He is a talented writer who’s work has appeared in Killing the Buddha, Relevant, and his blog, which also features a piece on the “Top 10...

This photo metaphorically describes how I feel about our new site. Come in, come in!  Get comfortable!  I certainly am. No, not that comfortable.  We keep our pants on around here.  (Though I admire your laid-back vibe.) This is the Burnside Writers Collective.  This is our new site.  It’s...

Dear Burnside readers, The holidays are over, and in rolls the humdrum of winter. At least the days are getting longer, right? It’s been some time since we checked in via the Letters from the Editor section. It’s been an eventful year for everyone, and Burnside has been no exception. We...

Readers, A month and a half ago, we posted a letter on this site kicking off our fund-raising venture, a drive to raise money for a new website we’re reluctantly calling Burnside 2.0 (both an overworn cliche and misnomer, since we’re really on about our third iteration of the site). We’ve...

Dear Readers, We’ve reached the point where we must ask you to help us. Burnside editors and regular contributors have been running through ideas, planning and preparing for months. It’s time for us to step out in faith. We know Burnside is special. We know we’re on to something....

UPDATE: Hello Burnside Community, Jordan is on an artistic retreat this week and so I get to give you all a behind-the-scenes look at what’s happening with the “new Burnside”, sometimes called “BWC 2.0″ in the flurry of e-mails exchanged between editors and some our regular...

Hello, all! Things are going well down here in Phoenix, and Burnside is back in the swing of things. For over a month, our email here at the site was not working. We just got it up and going with the invaluable help of Coach Culbertson over at Relief Journal, so a million thanks to him. What that means...

Ladies and gentlemen, Thanks for sticking with us the last few weeks! It’s been crazy around these parts, and we regret not being able to provide you with consistent issues. But, you see, I was busy. First, I got married. Here’s an incredible video Don Miller put together from footage...

Editor’s Note: Burnside will return next week with a full issue. In the meantime, make sure to check out Kim Gottschild’s and Penny Carothers’s interview with Noel Caeden, the author of this month’s series on racial reconcilation. Have a good Memorial Day. * * * I was...

Ladies and Gentlemen, A week and a half ago, Mindy and I learned we’ll be moving to Phoenix, Arizona in June. We knew a move was probably coming, so it was nice to finally hear where we’d go, but then a whole host of other issues comes up, like where we’ll live and how we’ll...