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Tony Reinke joins the show again to talk about writing, the uniqueness of his latest book, Competing Spectacles, and we talk BlogFathers and PodFathers.

Complete Manuscript from the show:---------Jeff: All right, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of home row. And on today's show, I finally have Patrick Shriner joining us. Patrick, how are you man?Patrick: Good. Thanks for having me. It's been awhile.Jeff: been awhile. We were supposed to record. Oh, good grief. I dunno. Maybe it's gotta be close to two years ago.Patrick: I think it's like 15 years ago when we were both toddlers.Jeff: We were, we were both in middle school. How old are you? Oh, me too. 35 when's your birthday?Patrick: August 26Jeff: Ooh, you're older. October 23rdPatrick: your blood type?Jeff: I have no clue.Patrick: Either door.Jeff: must be our generation thing. People are like, I bet my parents and your parents, they know their blood type.Patrick: That's right. That's right.Jeff: Like what do I need to know that for? They just tested at the place, whatever that place is.And they'll tell me what it is, what I need.Patrick: So we would have been 2015 years ago. There we go.Jeff: It's when we were 20 we were gonna do it. And where were you when you were 20. Were you at Louisville? Were you in Southern? Where were you?Patrick: I was in Louisville at that point. I'm trying to exactly what I was doing at that point, but I guess maybe Western Kentucky university.Jeff: Okay. All right. Nice. Where would I have been? I would have been here in Houston, still at the college of biblical studies, inner city Bible college. And it was a blast. very dispensational, which I learned while I was there. And yeah, so a lot of things have changed in my life.A lot of things have changed in yours, but the reason we were going to record, I think it was about two years ago, we were scheduled to record and it all fell apart cause I stopped at Starbucks. 30 minutes before we were going to record, to go pick up, you know, just to, it was probably a salted caramel mocha or who knows when those are in season. I got to get them. And so I go and I see a guy there and he's wearing a black shirt and, and big bright neon green. It just says

Show Notes Are Dead. Long Live the Full Transcript. What do you think?----------Jeff Medders: All right, everybody. We'll come back to a another episode of home row. And I'm your host, Jeff Medders. And on today's show, I have author Wesley Hill on the program. He's written all kinds of books and it's just a joy to have him on, especially we're going to talk about, talk about his new book and the Christian essential series, the Lord's prayer, a guide to praying to our Father.[00:00:36] So Wes, how are you, man?[00:00:38] Wesley Hill: I'm doing really well. Thanks for having me on the show.[00:00:40] Jeff Medders: Awesome man. Now, what part of the United States are you in? Are you in the United States? I know you got your PhD from outside of the United States, but I think you're in Pennsylvania, right?[00:00:47] Wesley Hill: That's right. Yup. I'm just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[00:00:50] Jeff Medders: Okay. I've been to Pennsylvania. Well, I guess a couple. No, at once, for sure.[00:00:55]I went to red lion, Pennsylvania.[00:00:58] Wesley Hill: I'm not even sure where that is, to be honest. I don't, I don't know my own state [00:01:02] Jeff Medders: It's, it's up in the Amish country. And I remember going there with, some friends of ours that were missionaries in Thailand and they were in town. And we went to go visit them and we went to the Amish market and all this stuff, and I bought kangaroo jerky.[00:01:19]I dunno where the Amish are getting kangaroo jerky from, but it's there and fun fact that if you go to the Amish markets and stuff, you can't use your debit card or credit card[00:01:32]Wesley Hill: Hmm.[00:01:32] Jeff Medders: cash only.[00:01:34] Wesley Hill: I would believe that.[00:01:36] Jeff Medders: That's something you want to, you want to prepare for that ahead of time, which I did not.[00:01:38] Wesley Hill: That's right. [00:01:39] Jeff Medders: not, but thankfully they had an ATM nearby,[00:01:41] Wesley Hill: So probably really beautiful country to drive through too, I imagine.[00:01:45] Jeff Medders: Yeah. Very cool. the horse

Lore Ferguson Wilbert and I talk about writing, her new book—Handle With Care—and we talk about our writing desks, and old blog names.

No show notes today, or maybe ever again, do y'all even use them? They are tedious to make and I don't fee like it doing it.

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Inspired by this blog post: 4 Ways A Pastor Can Improve His Writing

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The article we are riffing on: 15 Pieces of Writing Advice from C.S. LewisOvercoming Sin and Temptation by John OwenDwight's Hay Place on The OfficeIntroducing Evangelical Theology by Daniel J. TreierSelfControlFreedom AppGarner's Modern English UsageNew from Crossway:Redemptive Reversals and the Ironic Overturning of Human Wisdom by G.K. BealeTheological Retrieval for Evangelicals: Why We Need Our Past to Have a Future by Gavin OrtlundEmblems of the Infinite King: Enter the Knowledge of the Living God by Ryan ListerTwitter:@between2worlds@mrmeddersMy book: Humble Calvinism. Now available on Audible too.

Question from Amber Vandermaarl: My question is related to blogging. It seems to be the overarching recommendation for getting into a rhythm of writing and gaining potential exposure to see if my words resonate with anyone. But, being a young mom, I HATE the connotation of the “mommy blog”. But being a mom of one, soon to be 2, that is my every day. That is where I learn my lessons and am being daily sanctified. That is my fodder for writing. So finally to the question: should I do it anyway? Do the benefits outweigh the connotation that I am bored, basically illiterate, and just sharing recipes by having a “mommy blog”?