This…from ImageUpdate (a bi-weekly newsletter I get in my e-mail inbox)–a new (and somewhat personal) way to get your fans to invest in you! I was intrigued, probably because I’ve loved Over the Rhine’s music for a long time. I’ll let ImageUpdate explain: Over the Rhine and Joe Henry to Make a Record–With Your Help […]
What 10 Books Have Influenced How You Look At the World?
We have winners for the two up-for-grab issues of Books & Culture, May/June 2010 issue! Renae and Lindsey. Congratulations, you two! If you’ll e-mail me at comment4elissa at gmail dot com and provide me with your addresses, I shall send them straightaway. Happiest of reading to you. John Wilson, my editor at Books & Culture, […]
Soultribes and Stuffed French Toast
I’ve been sitting in the peanut gallery for a while on the first topic (heavens, what’s there to wait for with the Stuffed French Toast??), simply because I was wary at first. The next best thing isn’t always the next best thing, and you know, I was a little timid to get involved. Rachelle has […]
Extraordinary Women
The Time Magazine list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World is always fascinating, because for every person listed, you know there are thousands of unknown others who are also humbly changing the world. To my delight, under the Heroes section, Ang Lee (the Taiwanese-born director of Brokeback Mountain) applauds a Taiwanese woman, […]
Beginning of the Week Thoughts
Last week, I received a short reply from Redlefty of the blog Megaloi, responding to my question of whether or not he’d found any good books to read about Jesus’s humanness or divinity (or both). His reply: “…I’ve certainly had the same doubts/thoughts about Jesus. Honestly, I don’t know how I used to read the […]