In this interview, recorded in front of a live audience at The Habit Summer Writers Weekend in June 2024, Doug McKelvey discusses the ups and downs of a muti-faceted writing career. Doug is the author of the Every Moment Holy books.

In this interview, recorded in front of a live audience at The Habit Summer Writers Weekend in June 2024, Doug McKelvey discusses the ups and downs of a muti-faceted writing career. Doug is the author of the <a href="https://store.rabbitroom.com/pages/every-moment-holy">Every Moment Holy books</a>.

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Doug McKelvey Didn't Say No.

Dr. Junius Johnson is an independent scholar and teacher and a public intellectual who devotes his time to thinking and writing about whatever is noble and excellent, and how to bring those things to bear to nurture meaningful lives. You can find out more about his classes at JuniusJohnson.com. In this episode, Junius and Jonathan Rogers talk about receiving wonder and adding to the stock of the world’s wonders. And Junius asks, Who invented dragons?

Dr. Junius Johnson is an independent scholar and teacher and a public intellectual who devotes his time to thinking and writing about whatever is noble and excellent, and how to bring those things to bear to nurture meaningful lives. You can find out more about his classes at <a href="https://www.juniusjohnson.com/">JuniusJohnson.com</a>. In this episode, Junius and Jonathan Rogers talk about receiving wonder and adding to the stock of the world’s wonders. And Junius asks, Who invented dragons?

Junius Johnson asks who invented the dragon.

Karen Stiller writes about  the intersections between faith and the world, social issues, matters of justice and doing better. Her most recent book is Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Ordinary Events of Everyday Life. In this episode, Karen and Jonathan Rogers talk about holiness as a matter of loving people well as opposed to telling them how they have fallen short–and what that holiness has to do with the writing life. They also talk about writing in the midst of grief.

Read Karen's essay, "Why Keep Writing in the Midst of Grief?"

Karen Stiller writes about  the intersections between faith and the world, social issues, matters of justice and doing better. Her most recent book is <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/holiness-here-searching-for-god-in-the-ordinary-events-of-everyday-life-karen-stiller/20628234?ean=9781641587457">Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Ordinary Events of Everyday Life</a>. In this episode, Karen and Jonathan Rogers talk about holiness as a matter of loving people well as opposed to telling them how they have fallen short–and what that holiness has to do with the writing life. They also talk about writing in the midst of grief.
Read Karen's essay, <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/ekstasismagazine/p/why-keep-writing-in-the-midst-of?r=2mb5k&amp;utm_medium=ios">"Why Keep Writing in the Midst of Grief?"</a>

Karen Stiller on Holiness Here

Elizabeth Oldfield hosts The Sacred, a podcast about our deepest values, the stories that shape us, and how we can build empathy and understanding between people who are very different. She has a regular column for UnHerd and has appeared on BBC One, Radio 5Live, Radio 4, and The World Service. Her work has appeared in The Financial Times, Prospect, The Times, CNN, The Guardian, and beyond. She is also a contributing editor at Comment magazine, a guest lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and former director and now senior fellow at Theos, the UK's leading religion and society think tank. Her new book is Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times. 

Elizabeth Oldfield hosts <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sacred/id1326888108">The Sacred</a>, a podcast about our deepest values, the stories that shape us, and how we can build empathy and understanding between people who are very different. She has a regular column for UnHerd and has appeared on BBC One, Radio 5Live, Radio 4, and The World Service. Her work has appeared in The Financial Times, Prospect, The Times, CNN, The Guardian, and beyond. She is also a contributing editor at Comment magazine, a guest lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and former director and now senior fellow at Theos, the UK's leading religion and society think tank. Her new book is <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/fully-alive-tending-to-the-soul-in-turbulent-times-elizabeth-oldfield/20656748?ean=9781587436505">Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times</a>.

Doug McKelvey Didn't Say No.

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