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But Hemingway Didn’t Get an MFA
This Weekly Edition of Inkwell features Leighton Kennedy
MY EARLIEST WRITING IDOL wasn’t C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien. It was the old man in the portrait in my grandparents’ Florida master bedroom, the man whose life was big en...
Studies Show That I Am Right
This Weekly Edition of Inkwell features Josh Nadeau
THE RESEARCH IS quite clear: “I am right and you are wrong.” And as much as it may pain you to read that, as much as it may not ring true to you, trust me (and there’s a whole...
Building a Writerly World Together
The Inkwell team and community weigh in on the state of media. Join the debate!
Every first day of school, my friend’s mom used to write the word intrepid on her wrist in black ink to remind her to be brave as she faced new cl...
A Good Man is Hard to Find?
Featuring Jenna Mindel in the Fiery Philosophies series.
SOMEWHERE I heard that getting married young is like building a company together, and getting married later is like doing a merger; both are hard for different reasons....
The Two, Three, Four Loves?
Featuring A.A. Kostas in the Fiery Philosophies series.
A RIVER OF LOVE awakens me from my sleepwalked existence. I snap to my senses and am alive to this reality: It moves around us all; it’s the lifeblood of the world; it’s...
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Authors
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From Dust, New Lore. A storytelling community seeking transcendence by Christianity Today.
photographer, writer, wandering onward.
Your cage is always open you can leave anytime you want. Author of 'The Pluri Society' on Amazon. Nabokov enthusiast.
Just a girl who can't stop thinking about theology, poetry, and the whimsy of life. MDiv student at Pillar Seminary. Forthcoming book on delight as a spiritual discipline with Revell Books in 2027.
storyteller, poet, & student of Jesus trying not to get outsung by some stones
Northeast Ohio superfan writing about faith, formation, fun, food, and feelings.
Aspiring author.
Let's break some silly little rules
Opinion writer at The Boston Globe. Formerly Christianity Today. Published elsewhere around the web (and in print). Views my own.
Sculptor, Writer, Christian | Young Storyteller's Fellow with Inkwell | M.A. in Writing at PLNU
Author of "To Live Well," “You Are Not Your Own,” and “On Getting Out Of Bed,” published by InterVarsity Press. Prof English at Oklahoma Baptist University. Writing about humanism, culture, and faith.
"I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say." - Flannery O’Connor. All views (and writing) are my own. By-lines in Inkwell, Mere Orthodoxy, Front Porch Republic, and others.
International man of mysticism. Author of LUMINOX (Tilt Press, 2026) and THE PILGRIMS (Eclogue Press, coming soon). Editor of NEW ADVENTURES (Pennyworth Press, 2026). Contributing editor at TRACES JOURNAL. Always seeking Him.
Faith & culture writer. Spiritual director in training. Living in California, with my husband and cat, trying to see God in everything. ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆
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