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You can now embed the first thirty pages of A Million Mils on your website. Just visit this site, and embed the code like you would a YouTube video. You can also put it on your Facebook page. Thanks for all the help spreading the word. The book will be shipping from Amazon and Barnes within a very few days, and will be at your local bookstore within a couple weeks. Here we go! A Million Miles In A Thousand Years by Donald Miller

A couple weeks ago I sat down with Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers. Michael has posted the interview on his blog, and I thought I’d re-post it here. Feel free to embed the code on your blog, too. It’s a three-part interview, so I’ll post the rest of it as Michael posts it on his site. You can learn more about Mike here. Thanks Mike.

Mentoring Spotlight – Ben and Dennis from The Mentoring Project on Vimeo. The Mentoring Project is providing mentors for fatherless boys through local churches. We have programs in about seven churches in Portland, but around 200 on a waiting list. Besides being a blast, mentoring changes lives. The infrastructure is there, and the mentors are there, we just want to provide the resources and training to change an entire generation through these important relationships. This video focuses on one of our Hero Mentors, Ben, and his mentee, Dennis. Two great guys! Feel free to share their story on your blog, or on Facebook. Thanks everybody, and thanks Ben and Dennis. You guys rock. The mentoring relationship between Ben and Dennis began about 6 months ago when Ben began hanging out at an after school program in SE Portland. After being at the school for a while, Ben thought it would be fun to build a model car with one of the students. The program coordinator then mentioned that Dennis liked to build things. That next week, Ben and Dennis met. There was an instant connection. Although Ben and Dennis have done many fun activities together, it is the confidence with [...]

I visit my Facebook page about once a month. I used to use it all the time, but now I don’t. I think they changed their format or something, and I didn’t bother figuring out how to click around. I’m thinking of getting rid of it all together because it’s just another way for me to annoy people. By that I mean it’s just another way for me to not return e-mails, or for that matter pithy comments on my wall. At one point last year I had more than five-hundred unopened messages. Not unreturned, but actually unopened. I’ve gotten that down to around 120 these days, but it’s still hard for me to make a personal connection via e-mail. I’m horrible about that stuff. But it’s scary. How will I know about important social causes? Facebook is the new Economist, you know. I like Twitter and it truly is how I keep tabs on my friends, but Facebook has become a hindrance. So, in seeking resolve, I fired some questions at my friend Anne Jackson, who deleted her facebook account several months ago and has never looked back. If you happen to be contemplating such things too, perhaps her [...]

When I was writing Searching, the book was always called “Our Circus of Redemption.” It never had another name, until the last minute. The idea for the name Searching for God Knows What began floating around late in the game, and I dismissed it immediately. I knew what the name of the book was, and we’d designed a cover and were going to press. But just before we printed the book, I got an e-mail convincing me to change the title. It was a passionate e-mail from a Vice President at Thomas Nelson. Who’s to know if the book would have done better under another title. It’s hard to argue with it’s success. However, the book has always been called Circus, in my mind. We even printed the old circus cover, with the new title on it….Anyway, now we are redesigning the cover. I like these covers more. And I may write another book expanding on lifeboat theory, and I’ll call that book Our Circus of Redemption for sure. That said, which one of these covers do you like best? • Option one is in the lower right (Roller Coaster) • Option two is in the center (Wagon Wheel) • [...]