This blog, in random and scattered ways, is about parenting, writing, spirituality, and relationships. I hope to cross these and other intersections of my life. I write as a married man–born, raised, and living in Chicago–who fumbles through fatherhood, writes words, works as a pastor in a multiethnic church, teaches and learns in a seminary, mostly with soon-to-be-pastors. Please look through my Traveled Roads archive if you’re new to my posts, and if you like, email me at michael DOT intersections AT gmail DOT com.
Urban Plan for Intersections
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Previous Addresses
- My Hopes For You, Dr. Lallene Rector
- Interview with Larry Woiwide on Writing
- To My Mothers In Particular
- Spiritual & Writing Advice
- Why Should It Mean So Much
- Good News in Writing World
- Baldwin on Being Prepared to Give
- Writing Prompt: You Must Know…
- A Prompt: Write In And Through Love
- A Mini Examen
Neighborhoods
"We write because language is the way we keep a hold on life. With words we experience our deepest understandings of what it means to be intimate." --bell hooks in a book about writing.
"...the artist must bow to the monitor of his own imagination; must be led by the sovereignty of his own impressions and perceptions; must be guided by the tyranny of what troubles and concerns him personally..." --Richard Wright in a letter to Antonio Frasconi
"I mean the common run of us who love magnificence, beauty, poetry and color so much that there can never be too much of it. Who do not feel that the ridiculous has been achieved when some one decorates a decoration. That is my viewpoint. I see a preacher as a man outside of the pulpit and so far as I am concerned he should be to follow his bent as other men." --Zora Neale Hurston writing to James Weldon Johnson
"But that is the rub from any angle--getting the chance." --Claude McKay
"I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It’s a purgatory I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone."
--Sergio Troncoso
Street Signs
Traveled Roads
Stoplights
Blogging
Christianity
Communication
David Swanson
Death
Decision-making
Dr. Gardner C. Taylor
Editing
Eugene Peterson
Evangelical Covenant Church
Faith
Fatherhood
Fiction
Forgiveness
Hope
Howard Thurman
Justice
Leadership
Leadership Journal
Lent
Love
Marriage
Martin Luther King Jr.
Michael Hyatt
Ordination
Parenthood
Parenting
Parker Palmer
Pastoral Ministry
Prayer
Prayers
Publishing
Rachelle Gardner
Reading
Retreats
Revision
Spiritual disciplines
Spiritual Growth
Spirituality
Tayari Jones
Texas State Board of Education
Tyler Perry
Voting
Weddings
Writing
I’ve loved writing since as long as I can remember. Pen and pad are still today, two of my very best friends:-) It has helped me through some difficult as well as joyous moments in my life. From my first heartache as a teen to giving birth to my daughter, I love the ability to sit…and just write.
Love your blog Mike – thanks for sharing:-)
Thank you for reading, Audrey. Keep writing!