For today's entry in the Friday Five interview series, we catch up with Joshua Harris. Joshua is the Senior Pastor of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland and the author of several bestselling books. His latest is Humble Orthdoxy. Today we chat with Joshua and asked him to define “humble orthodoxy” and why he recently chose to reveal a very personal secret to his church.

I really don’t think of myself as a writer. I’ve written a bunch of books, but that doesn’t make me writer. It just means I type a lot. Writing is different. I know good writers, and they intimidate me. They think about what they are going to say, organize their thoughts, use adjectives, and spell-check, all the things I don’t want to do. Anyway, despite myself I’ve picked up a few things over the years, and one recent insight has proved helpful: I’ve learned to recognize the voices inside of me.

Gradual shifts in language reflect tectonic shifts in culture. We write less about community bonds and obligations because they’re less central to our lives.

"I got a little bit of work done on my book today, but not as much as I’d hoped," writes Donald Miller. "Yesterday, I wrote five times as many words as I did today. And I’d even argue yesterday’s words were better. I doubt anything I wrote today will be published. And yet I feel fine about it."

Part three of '2013 my god odyssey'

Part two if my '2013 my god odyssey' blog

Do you understand and remember more after reading from a page than reading from a screen? As Ferris Jabr reports for Scientific American, the book itself binds your understanding.

Ever since Jen McManus was first diagnosed with a malignant tumor, she's been fighting—fighting against cancer, and fighting for hope. However, far from being rooted in the vagueness of wishful thinking, Jen's hope is anchored in the certainty of Christ's love. "Cancer has made death more real—and the gospel more real," she says in this narrated gallery. "I'm joyful because of the gospel and because of the story God is telling through my life."

What if you went to all the big-name authors in the world—Franzen, Mailer, Wallace, Wolfe, Chabon, Lethem, King, 125 of them—and got each one to cough up a top-10 list of the greatest books of all time. We're talking ultimate-fighting-style here: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, modern, ancient, everything's fair game except eye-gouging and fish-hooking. Then you printed and collated all the lists, crunched the numbers together, and used them to create a definitive all-time Top Top 10 list. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1578073,00.html#ixzz2SSUKlKkn

Rachel is a popular Christian blogger, author, and speaker. Her latest book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood was a New York Times bestseller, provoking conversations on gender roles in Christianity. She's been featured on NPR, in Slate, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Guardian (UK), The Times London, The Huffington Post, and on Oprah.com, among others. Her blog is widely read. Today we asked Rachel about the writing process, the role controversy plays in building an online platform, and if she can get along with complementarians.