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April 4, 2014
No, I haven’t read your book…
Wonderful non-advice for would-be writers from novelist Jim Crace. Including the reason not to bother meeting a writer: “the Seventh Law of Literature: if a novel’s any good, then it will be more interesting than its author.”
March 27, 2014
Publishing Announcement
Stephen Lawhead, Pam Rhodes and Derek Wilson are just three of the very gifted writers represented on the new Lion Fiction imprint from established publishing house Lion Hudson in Oxford. The great news is that I will join them in November of this year when The Boy Who Loved Rain is published. I’m really excited […]
March 21, 2014
What is a Book to You?
“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” -Henry Ward Source: http://tmblr.co/Zx5xjx1AmhdS8
Poetry at King’s
The Very Thought I love the very thought of Heaven: Where angels sing In perfect, perpetual choir practice. Where Father, Son and Spirit rule Unchallenged And are honoured in full measure. I love the very thought of Heaven: But I was not made To live there. I was not made To walk on clouds, […]
A Bigger God 13: All Tomorrow’s Parties
Explicit in the Prodigal story and implicit in the whole biblical narrative there is a thread of invitation. All three of Luke’s lost and found stories end in a celebration; money spent, the neighbours invited. A visible, public, extravagant, even prodigal, party. Intriguingly, this seems to be true of a great number of the stories […]
March 18, 2014
Language as Shelter
Beautiful words from John Berger: “Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory or defeat. Everything moves towards the end, when the outcome will be known. Poems, regardless of any outcome, cross the battlefields, tending the wounded, listening to the wild […]
March 16, 2014
Faith Based not Faith Biased
I’m not sure who originally coined the phrase ‘faith-based, not faith-biased’. I found it in a report on the excellent work done by Patrick Regan’s XLP project in London. More recently, I’ve come to understand it as a guide to all that is best in faith-based fiction. It tells us something about how faith can […]
March 12, 2014
Faith-Based not Faith-Biased
I’m excited to announce the publication of The Whole Sky, a collection of three short stories released worldwide today through Amazon. Cole Moreton, in his Preface to this new collection, says: You are in safe hands. Relax. Gerard Kelly is a story teller. He can take you places you don’t yet know that you […]
March 5, 2014
A Bigger god 12 – The Good God / Bad God Show
The Invitation to Love and Be loved The Lego Movie has an already-famous scene capturing, in the voice of Liam Neeson, the harsh reality of a Good-Cop/Bad-Cop routine. “Take him to the melting chamber,” snarls Bad Cop. “Isn’t there supposed to also be a good cop?” pleads our hero. The head spins. “Hi buddy!” says […]
