Three seasoned writers who have given a great deal of thought to training Christian writers are Mischa Willett, director of the Whitworth Writers Workshop, and James Matthew Wilson and Joshua Hren, cofounders of the MFA in creative writing at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.

I didn’t know what most of the words meant, nor had I any sense of the majestic realities beneath them, but the cadence lulled me like a song.

Most schoolchildren countdown the seconds until recess. They look forward to going down the slides and playing games with their friends. However, this was not the case for Mischa Willett, a professor new to ACU this year. In fourth grade, he would skip recess just to read his teacher’s poetry.