Terry Mattingly urges Christian writers to create works of lasting quality that will appeal to ordinary people outside the church. A lesson involving C.S. Lewis and a Tokyo subway shows the way.
Continue ReadingWhen you write about religion for a religious publication, what exatly is your job? Are you a journalist? A public relations worker? Or something in between? Several practitioners of the craft of religion writing tackle that question in this article from Associated Baptist Press.
Continue ReadingAre you writing to be read? Learn how to apply readability formulas to your writing, how to make your writing easier to read, and why a readability formula makes a good servant, but a poor master.
Continue ReadingIn an EPA workshop, Peter Jacobi called journalism “the best job in town.” This article, excerpted from his talk, explains why
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Celebrities put their pants on one leg at a time just like us — unless perhaps they have a pair of butlers working in tandem to do the job. The rich and/or famous aren’t exactly like us, and that gulf can make an interviewer nervous. Tim Stafford draws on his experience for these tips to celebrity intervifewing. (This is excerpted from an EPA convention workshop he presented.) How many Christian journalists are there? A new organization helps Christians who work in mainstream journalism find colleagues, and support
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