HeyJaredA Habit Called Faith
Learning to pattern the days in faithful response to God's voice
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Getting the Bible Wrong (opens the original)
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For more than a year and a half, I’ve derived great encouragement from one particular parable of Jesus: the parable of the barren fig tree from Luke 13:6-9.In April 2024, while attending the Festival of Faith and Writing, I’d sensed the Holy Spirit speaking to me—through this parable— about my writing life, which had become a source of intense weariness and discouragement. The parable was cast like a life jacket into the murky waters of my publishing future, which felt neither stable nor sure. I
On Annie Dillard (opens the original)
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I’ll be honest. I’m writing about Annie Dillard for two reasons today. First, I’m a writer, and I must pay right and good homage to someone whose work has shaped mine. Though I’ve struggled to agree with exactly how Dillard articulated the call to creative work (as you’ll see in this essay), she did understand and submit to the costly commitments of such work. She said the obvious truth that I so often kick against: Only as we say concerted, committed, creatives yeses to hallow the time and spac
The Day I Quit Quitting Book Publishing (opens the original)
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A Rule of Life is a Practice (opens the original)
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On September 8th, I release my 6th book, A Rule for the Rest of Us: An Ancient Practice for Making the Daily Decisions that Shape Faithful Lives. Cue the balloons—and if you’re anywhere close to Cincinnati, come celebrate with me that night. (And yes, since you’re asking, you can still pre-order!)<a class="image-link image2 i
I Will Write (opens the original)
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