"In spiritual matters there really is no 'Third World.' It's all Third World."
- Dallas Willard
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
I've always known Michael was a great writer. Looks like some promising things are happening.
[T]wo weeks ago, the phone rang and a young man in Boston asked to edit three of my pieces into an opinion piece on the op/ed of the Christian Science Monitor.(Now if we could just get him to quit slumming over at that ramshackle pub down the street).
A week ago yesterday, he published it in print and on line.
Within 4 hours, it was on Drudge.
In the week since, the column has been everywhere in the media, and I have 12 interviews done or in process, with everyone from CNN to the Moody Network to a local Christian station.
Over 800 people posted comments or sent emails.
Two of them were literary agents.
One called today.
If this day ever came, I had two things I wanted. 1) I wanted to write about Jesus Shaped Spirituality and 2) I wanted someone to see my writing as marketable somewhere outside of the usual Christian market.
The first things I heard today were these two things. Both of them. Exactly.
Perhaps the last two years were moving me somewhere; somewhere I couldn’t go otherwise. Maybe this was God’s long road to take me where he wanted me to go.
Now I have an opportunity. An opportunity I’ve dreamed of. An opportunity that has come to me completely from the grace of God.
What will happen next?
I just have to keep writing.
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Comments on "Congrats, iMonk!":
3. Bob Sacamento
- 03/18/2009 2:38 pm CDT
Hey, Michael, if you're reading this. You don't have an announcement over at The Internet Monk that I can find, so this is the only place I know to give my big congrats.
I'm looking forward to seeing you in the mainstream press. But, now that you have discovered the secret to success, what I am really looking forward to is your seven-step spiritual and finincial success seminar on DVD!
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What ramshackle pub? You mean, the Pig-headed Tavern? The Boar's Butte? The Swine and Stein?