Category: writing life

Easter Monday, resurrected writings

None of us gets to live forever. But perhaps our words will outlive us, somehow.

Today is April Fools’ Day, a day of joy for pranksters, a day of annoyance for those of us who may be subject to the pranks. (You’ll find no pranks or tomfoolery on this blog today. I hope you’re not disappointed.) It is also the first day of National Poetry Month, which ought to be celebrated broadly, and I plan to do my part to highlight poetry in the coming days and weeks.

Today is also Easter Monday, which is celebrated in some parts of the world, but, aside from the annual Easter egg hunt on the White House lawn today, not so much in the U.S. You might, however, score some bargains on overstocked candy eggs and Easter bunnies today.

As for me, I’ve been thinking today and recently about the idea of resurrection — not only of the resurrection of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament gospels, but of the resurrection of writings. My own.

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‘E-vangelism’ revisited

Reflections on my first published book, which was released April 1, 1999.

Update: Since posting this Monday afternoon, Amazon has sold out of its copies of this book but some used copies are still available. The book appears to be available from other online booksellers, however, and if anyone is interested in a signed copy, please contact me and I’ll get one to you.

Twenty-five years ago next week, my first book, E-vangelism: Sharing the Gospel in Cyberspace, rolled off the presses of a Christian publishing house in Lafayette, Louisiana, and was shipped to Christian bookstores and, on April 1 of that year, an online bookseller known as Amazon.com.

It was 1999, the year made famous by Prince’s 1982 hit single of the same name. That spring also saw the release of The Matrix in movie theaters, the expansion of NATO in Eastern Europe, and the debut of SpongebobSquarepants on Nickelodeon. It was the spring of the Columbine massacre. It was the year Amazon broke the $1 billion mark in revenues for the first time and expanded their product line by introducing an ebook reader called the Kindle and a smart speaker called the Echo, which was used with the company’s Alexa personal assistant system.

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