Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

My 5-year-old daughter Olivia and I wrote a song today! It really was a co-writing effort. She came up with some of it and I came up with some of it. As a habit, I like to demo (which means roughly record) a song as soon after it’s written as possible, and we did that [...]

A couple of years ago I won a prize at a writing conference for writing the following story in about 10 minutes:
It didn’t jive: foxes and God? What had one to do with the other? Yet here was this brewer, regaling me with stories of how both God and foxes made numerous cameos in his [...]

I think Donald is one of, if not THE brightest of “our” writers. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality deserves a place on the highest shelf of that genre… I’m thinking of Madeleine L’engle and Anne Lamott here… and maybe a bit of P.J. O’Rourke. Honestly, Blue Like Jazz changed a few [...]

The winds of reconciliation are blowing through the stratum of Christendom of late.
First, Steve “Shake Me to Wake Me” Camp made a heartfelt apology to long-time nemesis and current All-American Calvinist poster boy Mark Driscoll.
Then, in an equally heartfelt – though expletive peppered – post,  Chief Executive Senior Pastor of New Spring Church, Perry Noble, admits [...]

***You might want to read part1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5 first***
“I wish Ani DiFranco wasn’t a Lesbian.” 
So begins Miller’s chapter on love.  It’s another fine example of why this book would never have shown up in Christian bookstore even a decade ago.   At any rate, Don continues (if you [...]

This is a re-post of an article I published ay Digital Journal in the summer of 2007.  It still seems timely considering the numer of attacks I’ve heard by “real” journalists on bloggers.
 Triumph In Waiting: The Rise of Digital Journalism
July 28, 2007
One week ago I sent a letter to the editor of the National Post [...]

***You might want to read part1, part 2, and part 3 first***PART 4:
I also want you to know that I believe what Don says about Jesus giving us the ability to love the things we should because I have experienced the transformation.  I could have written, word-for-word what Don says next:

“I tried to love the right things without God’s help, [...]

I’ve had this story collaboration project going on my site from time to time. You can join in. Its just a fun game where you can write a bit of fiction and plot the course of the future. Ooooooo, the power.
I wrote part 1 and it goes like this:

and then Part 2 [...]

(CLICK HERE – you need to be playing this song while you read)

Airports are filled with people who have a purpose.  Its not the type of place many people go to just for something to do, although after being here today I would consider coming again for the sole purpose of writing more character sketches.  [...]

When I become electric, piece by piece by bit by byte
First my memory and then my sight
It was sound that once inspired
Every ear an analog device
What the mouth delivers the ears decode
 
Convert me to electric, finally I’m united
No memory to lose since copies will abound
But then too every banal thought forever will be truth
Existing in [...]