Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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A warning to preachers?
According to a new study, asking people how often they are likely to engage in a negative behavior actually increases the likelihood they will engage in it.
Which got me wondering…if a preacher emphasizes the dangers of sin over the rewards of righteousness, so that he gets people constantly thinking about sin and temptation and how likely they are to give in, is his congregation actually more likely to commit the sins he’s constantly warning against than a congregation whose preacher takes a different tack?
Someone should do that study…
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2007/05/a-warning-to-preachers/
