Village Temperaments: The Cleric October 27, 2026 Blog This is part of an ongoing series on Village Temperaments. In the first post, “What Does the Village Need You For?“, I introduced the idea that every one of us is built to fill one of eight seats around the village fire, and that each seat runs […]
Village Temperaments: The Warrior October 20, 2026 Short Stories This is part of an ongoing series on Village Temperaments. In the first post, “What Does the Village Need You For?,” I introduced the idea that every one of us is built to fill one of eight seats around the village fire, and that each seat […]
Village Temperaments: The Hunter October 13, 2026 Blog This is part of an ongoing series on Village Temperaments. In the first post, “What Does the Village Need You For?“, I introduced the idea that every one of us is built to fill one of eight seats around the village fire, and that each seat runs […]
History in Color October 12, 2026 Politics On Democratic Erosion, Human Dignity, and the Danger in Front of Us I made a social media post recently that said “Reconciling the 1940s in color has always been difficult—until now.” Great as a one liner, but I felt the subject required more attention than that. I was […]
Faith Before the Flood of Information October 9, 2026 Blog Why Pre-Internet Christianity Must Be Reexamined in Light of What is Now Known Thesis The Christianity most people inherited was not a conclusion drawn from evidence. It was a conclusion drawn from the absence of evidence to the contrary, under conditions in which that absence […]
Village Temperaments: The Farmer October 6, 2026 Blog This is part of an ongoing series on Village Temperaments. In the first post, “What Does the Village Need You For?,” I introduced the idea that every one of us is built to fill one of eight seats around the village fire, and that each seat runs […]
The Eight Seats Around the Fire September 29, 2026 Blog A few weeks ago, I told you that every human being is built to fill one of eight seats around the village fire. I also promised to walk you through them one by one. We’re going to start doing that today. First, a bit of […]
What Does the Village Need You For? September 8, 2026 Blog Before there were nations, companies, churches, or schools, there was a fire with people around it. Every human alive descends from bands that survived — and the ones that survived were the ones where, when night came, knew they’d served a purpose. Somebody […]
The Novel That Built a City September 1, 2026 Blog Picture this: A broke, half-educated preacher wanders into the Missouri backwoods to save his health and accidentally invents a tourism industry. In 1907, Harold Bell Wright published The Shepherd of the Hills, a sentimental little novel about a mysterious stranger who shows up in the […]
Great Writing Requires Great Empathy August 26, 2025 Writing Tips My mother is a published author. My biological father drank himself to death a couple of weeks after being rejected by several publishing houses in a row. As a young man, he was not a bad writer. He initially wrote well enough to get himself […]
Is There a Place for AI in Fiction Writing? August 3, 2026 Short Stories One of the questions I get a lot these days is this: “With the dawn of AI, can writers even make a living from their writing anymore? Can writers make use of AI in their writing and still be legit?” I […]