The Glen in the Media

Glenblogging

Glen participants are spreading the word! Check out the blogs and columns posted by attendees after returning from a life-changing Glen Workshop.

Those We Follow | "I look forward every year now to the Glen Workshop for much the same reason, knowing that it will heal me in ways I didn’t even know I was broken...." -- Stephen Lamb, Glen West 2011

An Act of Soul: Thoughts After Attending the Glen | "The expectation at the Glen, stated and unstated, was that we would draw out each other’s strengths. And we did...." -- Connie Connally, Glen East 2011

My Week at Glen Workshop East 2011 | "The Glen was the first time in my life that I have found a faith-based community that wasn't judgmental, that did not condemn me...." -- Sera Rivers

Glen Workshop (Toes Curled Over the Precipice) | "And the workshop? Wonderful. Stunning, really. I'm overwhelmed and I feel like I've been gone a month instead of a week. I'm not kidding -- I actually somehow expected the garden to be overgrown, to have missed the 4th of July completely...." -- Amy Timberlake, Glen East 2011

A Week (of Movies) Can Change a Life | "All week, I’ve been buzzing with unusual electricity. I feel a little smug, like I’m carrying around a winning lottery ticket, and nobody knows why I’m smiling...." -- Jeffrey Overstreet, longtime Glen attendee and Film Seminar instructor  

"A Week Can Change a Life" (it did mine) | "It is where I feel most me, most at home. I’ve made lifelong friends. I’ve never once felt that I was not religious enough, not good enough, not moral enough, not sure enough, not right enough...." -- Sara Zarr, longtime Glen attendee and  YA Fiction instructor, Glen West 2010

Dancing in Fields of Wheat and Chaff | "...real beauty is not even a simple turning of the tables that makes the first last and the last first — it is instead a revelation, a vision fierce enough to hold us all...." -- Daniel Bowman, Jr., SPU MFA student, Glen West 2010

A Week Changed My Life" | Having read IMAGE for a decade or so, I always wanted to go to this Mecca for artists, but it was either a timidity or monetary issue...." -- Jenni Simmons, Art House America editor, Glen West 2010

When at the Glen Workshop... | "...because it is a culture defined by love, I found myself drawn in like the most recently adopted member of a large and excellent family...." -- Bradford Winters, Play/Screenwriting instructor, Glen West 2010

Quick Quotes about the Glen

"There’s so much goodness here. I feel something like discomfort trying to absorb more than my cup’s accustomed to holding.”

"Like the journal that inspired it, the workshop was a class act with heart and spirit."

"I loved the stimulation the Glen offers at every level – intellectual, spiritual, creative, social – I leave with an abundance of insight, refreshed truths, and new perspectives to carry with me (not to mention fuel-injected creative drive…)"

"I came for the first time to the Glen and realize if this is breathing, I’ve been suffocating for years! What an amazing energy comes from being with like-minded artists of all different crafts. And with the encouragement and practical insights from my workshop, I have learned more as a writer in this one week than the past 20 years."

"I feel I have come home after a long exile."

“The line between the solemn and the comic never felt imposed from the outside. The staff, the presenters, and the audience seem so well matched."

"The best thing about the Glen is the fellowship of artists for whom faith is not a dirty word."

“I didn’t know what to expect, and the Glen was...the inspiration to return home with perspective gained for changes.”