The Writing and the Spirit Podcast

The Wisdom of a Cucumber

I'm not sure who is wiser, Dostoyevski's Father Zossima or a Veggie Tales cucumber (Zoe says she is an asparagus).

The Dinosaur in Chinatown

If you can hang out with a seven year old and find out what your life means, you've done it all.

Become Who You Are

You need to get deprogrammed.

Be Indomitable, Or Else

How to survive as an artist in this cruel world.

Creators are Hard, according to Friedrich Nietzsche and me

Here I will assign a couple more daunting tasks, asking you to get courageous and quit making excuses.

How to Become a Master

Three assignments, your response to each of which can determine whether or not your writing will reach the audience you hope for.

Pay Your Dues

I could call this "no pain. no gain", except writing is much more fun than working out. 

Weirder and Weirder

In this podcast, I try to make some sense of freedom.

How to Behave Between Now and November 3

How Feodor Dostoyevski would prefer we behave, and how a wonderful editor taught me to write nicer.

Who and what we writers should love, and how we should do it.

In this short podcast, you'll find an argument between two of the greats,  Feodor Dostoyevski and Flannery O'Connor, refereed by novelist Fredrick Buechner. Also, I give a pitch for the Mount Hermon Christian Writers' Conference.