Monthly Archives: April 2008

Because the festival schedule was so packed I didn’t have time to type out the rest of my notes while it was going on, so I’ll be blogging through them over the next week. On Thursday afternoon, I ran into … Continue reading →

There were a couple different sessions that I wanted to go to next, the last session before lunch, but after Jeffrey Overstreet mentioned over dinner last night that his favorite living poet is Scott Cairns, I had to hear his … Continue reading →

The second morning session I attended was one I was really looking forward to, both for the topic and for the speaker. Phyllis Tickle was speaking on Writing as Catechesis. She said “Writing, for me, involves every morning going through … Continue reading →

My afternoon was filled up with Caedmon’s Call. The first afternoon session I attended was a Q&A with Cliff Bragg, Andy Osenga, Todd Bragg, and Garrett Buell. One of the first questions prompted the usual explanation from Cliff that they … Continue reading →

I’m staying with some friends (thanks Ken and Nan!) while I’m up here in Grand Rapids attending the festival, and after the Caedmon’s Call concert finished, just before midnight and after thirty-one songs in what was one of the best … Continue reading →

I’m doing my best to blog about the sessions throughout the day, so here’s the first post. The first session I caught this morning was with Shauna Niequist, reading a couple essays from her book Cold Tangerines. I had never … Continue reading →

I first heard about the biennial Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College, which began in 1990, a couple years ago while reading Charlie Peacock’s book A New Way to Be Human. In 2000, when Charlie was one of … Continue reading →