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We are planning a rebuild of the various Don Miller sites, and so the talks available in the store won’t be available for much longer. All the proceeds from the talk go to a good cause, but the availability is now limited. If you like Don’s writing, you’ll enjoy his various lectures as well. Don is currently wrapping up his book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years and will be recording the audio version next week in Nashville. Do forgive his absence from the blogosphere. We trust everybody will

The Mentoring Project announces new President, Dr. John Sowers.

For the last few months we have been interviewing candidates for the position of Executive Director of The Mentoring Project. We are pleased to announce we have found our man! Our vision of mentoring ten-thousand kids through one-thousand church-based programs is underway but it just got a shot in the arm. We will also be announcing new hires here shortly, but for now, by way of introduction is the press release issued by our Board of Directors. Thanks everybody!

 

**For Immediate Release**

We are

A Poem for Mothers Day

If you’ve not sent anything to your mom today, feel free to cut and paste. This is a great Billy Collins poem that seems to sum it all up.

The Lanyard –Billy Collins

The other day I was ricocheting slowly

off the blue walls of this room,

moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano,

from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,

when I found myself in the L section of the dictionary

where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard.

No cookie nibbled by a French novelist
could send one into the past m

President Obama signs a proclamation marking today as the National Day of Prayer

 

One of my good friends, Joshua Dubois (the man in the picture who is not the President) has been doing terrific work in Washington, serving the President as the head of the Faith Based Partnerships Council. Josh and I criss-crossed the country together during the campaign, and I found him to be a delightful and devout follower of Jesus. Recently Josh stood behind the President as he officially made today, May 7th a National Day of Prayer. Congrats, Josh. And thank you President Obama. Here is t

An Interview with the United Methodist Portal

Here’s an interview that recently came out with the United Methodist Church. I spoke with Robin Russell in Dallas a few weeks ago and really enjoyed the time. We pretty much hit on all the things I care about, so I’m reposting it on the blog.

Q&A: A conversation with Donald Miller 



Robin Russell, May 5, 2009 

Donald Miller

Donald Miller’s best-selling Blue Like Jazz has drawn a cult-like following among young adults seeking a “nonreligious” take on Christianity. His next book, A Million Mile

For a couple years now Nick Thune and I have had a few mu...

For a couple years now Nick Thune and I have had a few mutual friends, and we finally ran into each other in LA last week. I found Nick to be seriously funny. We talked a bit about comedy and he shared some great stories from his career, including his first appearance on the Tonight show, in which an AIDS awareness commercial aired right before he came on. I’ve thought for a long time performing comedy is one of the hardest things you can do, and even harder to do well. And yet Nick makes it loo

Excerpt from A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

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Doing some editing on the book this morning. Today I will send in a draft that will be printed as galleys, paperbacks essentially that will be sent to the press for review and to key book buyers. The book still has rough spots, but I will clean most of them up today, then spend the next week or two really polishing it into the form we can actually publish. So I’ll be sharing some excerpts with you here and there as I come across something I find interesting. By the way, this is most likely the

These Numbers Have Faces

One of my favorite people in this world is my roomate Justin Zoradi. Justin is bunking with me until he and his girl Trisha get married this August. He’s only been in the house for a month or so, but already the place has a better feel just because he is around. Justin and Trisha moved to Portland a couple years ago and started a non-profit called These Numbers Have Faces, a partnership between American micro-investors and students in South Africa. Essentially, anybody willing to invest in a stu

Help us Mentor a Fatherless America

 



As I’ve mentioned, this week we launched the new Mentoring Project website at www.thementoringproject.org. Thanks to all of you who have visited the site and told your friends about it. We are recruiting ten-thousand mentors through one-thousand church based programs. We already have eighty mentors, seven churches and over 300 people are giving small monthly donations to keep us going. Our vision is huge, and we are supported by a grass roots campaign of people just like you.

If you give a mo

The Church is Providing Fathers to the Fatherless

My roomate, Justin, teaches at a school in a rough neighborhood here in Portland, and it happens to be a school that partners with The Mentoring Project, a mentoring program I started a couple years ago. We are now mentoring 65 kids and are rapidly expanding our reach. We provide mentors to kids through church-based programs and believe strongly the church holds a big chunk of the solution to the fatherlessness crisis in America.

One of the many ways I get feedback about our program is through Ju