Haiku 365 WEEK 52 359: December 25 ~ Clatter on the roof as dawn stains the ocean sky, birds sing Christmas songs. ~ I step outside the hotel lounge onto a wind-buffeted patio. Down the hill, the ocean stretches out forever. No one else is around. The houses nearby are quiet, too. Then I …
A Most Peculiar Book It’s official! A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of… Read More kswensonDecember 26, 2020 The Writer’s Story Podcast Launched! “The writer isn’t made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses,”… Read More kswensonFebruary 7, 2019 You’re Invited! The Misunderstood Bible Project: A Talk The Bible. It’s weird. Let’s talk. If you …
A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible (Oxford University 2021) “… stimulating and challenging,… questions all simplistic ‘Bible-believing’ theories about the authority of Scripture by showing how complex and contradictory it often is. Swenson tackles the problems head on while still making good her claim to love the Bible.”—John Barton, author of …
Kristin Swenson Services About Us Service 1 Pretty Good Kitchen The Writer’s Story Amazing Things for You Always write benefits over features. Mention all the benefits or services with some real examples. Focus on how you can help and benefit your user. Use simple words so that you don’t confuse people. Say as much in …
*Related: Join folks in RVA Aug. 18, 6pm for follow-up Hands Across Our Land rally!* (The following article first appeared on The Huffington Post) George Jones is still serving his country. Navy vet (Korea) and lifetime resident of Virginia, Mr. Jones bused to Richmond to take his message of American responsibility to the governor. That …
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Harriet Tubman chuckling in heaven. That’s what I’d like to think as her response to the news that her face will grace the front of our new twenty dollar bill. With no small bit of humorous irony, grace it will. See, in the case of Harriet Tubman, her money was your money and yours and …
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Who’d have thought that words such as “hot” or “trending” would refer to Harriet Tubman? Yet, there they are. Hers may be the face that boots Hamilton from the ten dollar bill, and her words graced Viola Davis’ historic Emmy speech. Friends knowing how my preoccupation with Harriet Tubman led to writing a screenplay Tell …
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What is it about an other that can be so… well, whatever you wouldn’t come up with yourself? When it comes to creativity — making something new whether on canvas, with sound, in writing, or out of clay – most people work alone. It’s a solitary life, the way of an artist, isn’t it? Then …
Happy Feast Day of the Ass! No kidding. Animals get short shrift in religious beliefs and practice (apart from the Hindu cow, and sacrifice, of course), so I found it quite wonderful to stumble on an old tradition celebrating the biblical donkey. For a time, Christians seriously honored the animal who brought a pregnant Mary …
I have so enjoyed immersing myself in historical fiction lately. Some books I’ve read as a kind of catch-up to the genre, some have been for book clubs, and some I’ve picked up simply on the recommendation of friends. What a broad spectrum — definitely not limited to the bodice-ripper British romances that I pilfered …
