Today we welcome Inez Tan, a writer with MFA training and experience with the Augustine Collective, a student-led movement of Christian journals on college campuses. Inez talks about journaling as part of her spiritual life. Read other entries in the Writing As a Spiritual Discipline series here. … [Read more...] about Journaling to Practice Honesty (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)
Writing As a Spiritual Discipline
What Writing Does for Me (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)
Tamarie Macon continues our spring series on Writing As a Spiritual Discipline with reflections on the writing process—including some in poetry. Read Tamarie's other ESN reflections here, on Navigating the Rapids and how to Plan Long and Prosper. To see other posts in the Writing As a Spiritual Discipline series, click here. Writing . . . focuses me. Having to write one word—one letter—at a time forces me to focus. On one idea. In the moment. Writing slows my thoughts to one idea at a time. It's like … [Read more...] about What Writing Does for Me (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)
Why I Write (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)
We resume our Writing As a Spiritual Discipline series with a post by Anna Gissing, editor at InterVarsity Press and previous editor of The Well. Browse Anna's other work for ESN here, including one of our most read posts, Grading As a Spiritual Practice. To explore other pieces in the Writing As a Spiritual Discipline series, click here. I'm not one of those writers who has always known I wanted to write. I don't have childhood journals, and I didn't write my first novel as a teen. (In fact, I still haven't … [Read more...] about Why I Write (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)
Writing Exercises My Respect Muscles (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)
“Respect, I think, always implies imagination—the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.” (Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace) In South Africa where I lived for many years, the basic “hello” greeting, sawubona, translates literally, “I see you.” In this mundane greeting, people declare to each other a tiny reminder that “I see you as a human, and I respect you.” Writing offers an opportunity to say the same: “I see you; I respect you.” In writing, we slow down long … [Read more...] about Writing Exercises My Respect Muscles (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)
Writing Captures the Moment (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)
Today in our new series on Writing As a Spiritual Discipline, InterVarsity staff member Angelo Blancaflor shares his thoughts. See Angelo's other work for the ESN blog here. Previous posts in the Writing as a Spiritual Discipline series include Limits and Creation and The Spiritual Act of Naming: Truth Telling in Writing. Since finishing undergrad, I've moved back across the country—from school in Illinois to home in Orange County, CA. Writing has been a big part of the past 8 months as I've been … [Read more...] about Writing Captures the Moment (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)