Interview with Jan Dennis

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Please Welcome…Jan Dennis (*Originally posted February 2007) What a joy and honor to have editor and agent Jan Dennis as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. You may not know Jan’s name, but you know his work. Ever heard of Frank Peretti? Ted Dekker? Stephen Lawhead? These are all authors Jan “discovered” and published. Back in the day when Crossway Books was putting Christian fiction (of any genre) on the map, it was largely because of Jan Dennis. Jan has a lifelong love for speculative fiction, as you will be able to see below. Currently Jan works as an agent representing …

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Sunday Devotional–Numbers 6:24-26

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My passage for Sunday sets forth a proclamation of woe from Jeremiah 23. The Old Testament prophetic woe is a specific subset of negative oracles delivered by OT prophets; they are not pleasant in the least, and woe be indeed to the one who falls under it. Now, contrast woe with those upon whom the Lord’s favor rests: The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. Num 6:24-26 Wonderful words. Encouraging words…for if the Lord’s face shines upon us, …

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But Who Would Be Dumb Enough To Try It? (Episode 11)

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It’s Saturday and time for another episode of MLP’s Collaborative Story. Enjoy! A heavy, solemn presence lay over all like a thick fog. I see, but cannot see. I hear, but cannot hear. All I can do is stare at the small pile of grey ash. Cludge…was not Cludge. He had been something more. One of the ancient ones from the last Great Age. Tekla sobs as Barzillai helps her to her feet. He bends his face toward hers and whispers something. She sniffs and wipes her face. Her eyes come to full bore on me. “Why didn’t you do …

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Interview with Karen Hancock

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Please Welcome…Karen Hancock (*Originally posted January 2007) This month we have esteemed novelist Karen Hancock as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Karen is the author of Arena, The Light of Eidon, The Shadow Within, Shadow Over Kiriath, and Return of the Guardian-King. Every one of Karen’s Christian fantasies and SF have won the Christy Award for excellence in Christian fiction. Kathy is warm and generous and approachable and articulate. All the things you hope to find in an author and friend. And now the interview. WhereTheMapEnds: Catch us up with what’s going on in your life. Karen Hancock: I’ve just …

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Interview with Kathryn Mackel

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Please Welcome…Kathryn Mackel (*Originally posted December 2006) What a joy and honor to have novelist Kathryn Mackel as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Kathryn Mackel is a best-selling author and acclaimed screenwriter for Disney, Fox, and Showtime. She was on the screenwriting team for Left Behind: The Movie, and Frank Peretti’s Hangman’s Curse. She is the resident playwright for the Living Word Players of Dunstable, Massachusetts, coaches ASA Junior Olympic softball and is a singer and instrumentalist with the ministry of music in her church. She lives north of Boston with her husband and two children. Her screenwriting credits and …

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Sunday Devotional–Isaiah 9

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Isaiah 9 is a common advent text; it was a bit odd to see it as the assigned text for this Sunday. Nevertheless, in reading it through non-advent glasses I noticed it seems rather applicable to the current state of affairs around us. There’s enough doom and gloom to go around these days–from economics to politics to debt to public shootings. On and on it goes. If you’re caught in any of these sweeping movements, my heart goes out to you. Now, we don’t yet have Assyrians to contend with as Isaiah did, but still, the end of chapter 8 catches a bit …

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