It's been a long, long time since I picked up paper and pencil (yes, I still use paper and pencil) with joy in my heart. Thank you, Saint Paul's, for giving me a forum to express myself, and thank you, friends and family, for never giving up on me. Finally, thank you to my wonderful wife, Erin, for loving me unconditionally, always encouraging me to try writing again - and for helping this technologically challenged man actually start his own blog!!
My next work is already in progress. I read Stephen King's The Green Mile a few years ago, and I remembered being struck by its Biblical themes then. As I began this journey a few weeks ago with the writing of The Real Man of Steel, I couldn't stop thinking about the lives of John Coffey and Paul Edgecombe in Cold Mountain so many years ago. I feel called to explore the story of Jesus through the lives of these characters so that we all might better understand Jesus, and in turn, ourselves.
I hope that you will all enjoy reading these articles as much as I will enjoy writing them. I look forward to reading your posts about my work, and hope that you will leave many suggestions of other novels, short stories, movies, and theatrical works that I can explore in more depth so that we may all see Jesus's teachings between the lines.
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