Jonathan Rogers

Nashville

Writer, Editor. Author of The Charlatan's Boy, The Bark of the Bog Owl, The Way of the Wilderking, The Secret of the Swamp King, St Patrick, etc.

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English Teacher Weekly for Mar. 27th

1 month ago | englishteacherweekly.substack.com | Andrew Campbell |Jonathan Rogers

Welcome to English Teacher Weekly—your source for what’s worthwhile from the worlds of literature, education, Christian thought, and the humanities. This week’s edition comes to you from the local coffee shop I escape to after school about once a week. It’s a little treat I like to give myself. I was served a hot cup of coffee from a beloved former student of mine who’s taking a gap year. A year as a barista isn’t a bad way to go, baking muffins, roasting coffee beans, chatting up the locals.
The concrete reality of faithful fiction

Jul 11, 2024 | wng.org | Jonathan Rogers

My fiction career began with the happy collision of a canoe trip and a sermon series. I was in Florida, and a friend gave me a set of cassette tapes of Eugene Peterson’s sermons on the life of King David that became his book, Leap Over a Wall. As I listened, I was struck by how much David’s story has in common with the kind of fiction I have always loved, from The Hobbit to Robin Hood to Huckleberry Finn to True Grit.
The Flannery O'Connor Novel That Might Have Been

May 22, 2024 | christianitytoday.com | Jonathan Rogers

Flannery O'Connor was an inveterate rewriter, working, reworking, and deleting episodes from her stories and novels. Her archives, collected at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, bulge with deleted scenes and alternate versions of characters scarcely recognizable as the people who inhabit the published versions of her stories. O'Connor spent five years crafting Wise Blood, her first novel.
English Teacher Weekly for May 7th

May 8, 2024 | englishteacherweekly.substack.com | Andrew Campbell |Jonathan Rogers

Welcome to ETW, your weekly source for what’s worthwhile from the worlds of literature, education, Christian thought, and the humanities. Take a look around and see what catches your eye. The week we’re headed to YouTube for a full-on extravaganza. It’s Teacher Appreciation Week here in the States, so please consider this edition my note of appreciation to all the teachers out there, fighting the good fight. I hope you snag a gift card or two this week. Maybe grab a little treat from the break room.