Writers Connection

Our final Writers Connection of the 2017-2018 season features Dr. Michael Badriaki on Thursday, April 19, at 7 p.m. at Oak Hills Presbyterian Church. The church is located at 5101 SE Thiessen Road in Milwauikie, Oregon. Michael Badriaki was born in Kenya and raised in Uganda. His book When Helping Works: Alleviating Fear and Pain in Global […]

Mark your calendar for the next Writers Connection Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 7 p.m. when Marc Schelske is set to speak! The meeting will be at Oak Hills Presbyterian Church located at 5101 SE Thiessen Road in Milwaukie Oregon.  Marc Schelske is a writer, speaker, hobbyist theologian, recovering fundamentalist, tea drinker & motorcycle rider.  Sometimes he’s a […]

Gather with us for  Writers’ Connection Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 at 7 p.m. at Oak Hills Presbyterian Church (5101 SE Thiessen Road, in Milwaukie, Oregon). This is our first quarterly meeting of the calendar year! We will hear from Gina Ochsner, who teaches writing and literature at Corban University and with Seattle Pacific University’s Low Residency […]

It is an honor to welcome  AJ Swoboda back to Writers Connection Thursday, April 20, 2017. The meeting will be held at Oak Hills Presbyterian Church in Milwaukie at 7 p.m. Dr.  A.J. Swoboda is a professor, author, and pastor of Theophilus in urban Portland, Oregon. He teaches theology, biblical studies, and Christian history at George […]

We’re thrilled to announce that Joshua Ryan Butler is our January 2017 Writers Connection! Joshua is the author of “Skeletons in God’s Closet” (2014) and most recently “The Pursuing God,” published by Thomas Nelson in 2016. He loves helping people wrestle through the tougher topics of Christian Faith. Currently he is a pastor at Imago Dei […]

We’re thrilled that D.L. Mayfield is speaking this week at Writer’s Connection! If hearing from the author of “Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith” wasn’t enough, she’s sharing with us the first three chapters of her book! FOR FREE. That’s right. You read it correctly. We’re getting an exclusive sneak peak […]

Writer’s Connection is excited to announce our first speaker of the new year — D. L. Mayfield! D. L. Mayfield has just released a new book, Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith. A regular contributor to Christianity Today and a past columnist for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Mayfield is a […]

When we started the Faith & Culture Writers Conference in 2011 at Western Seminary in Portland, our initial idea was to offer our creative event every other year at alternating higher education institutions. As the years went on, the passion for the Faith & Culture Writers Conference grew beyond the Pacific Northwest, and we began […]