“The difference between a good writer and a great writer is that great writers deliberately seek to improve their writing skills. In this book, Merkle and Miles show you how to write with diligence and discipline, how to make your words work for you, and how to develop your own voice and vision for writing. Merkle and Miles offer terrific tips and techniques that aspiring and accomplished writers will return to time and time again.”—Michael F. Bird, deputy principal, Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia

“Christian Academic Writing is both practical and inspiring. Merkle and Miles not only offer their own invaluable experience as academic writers, but they also point to some of the best resources available for all writers. I will recommend this book often.”—Karen Swallow Prior, author of The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

“This is an excellent and valuable book. I wish it had been available forty years ago! It is clear, practical, and encouraging. It is also brutally honest. Writing can be a labor of love, but it can also be a task filled with overwhelming disappointments. My colleagues and friends Ben Merkle and Adrianne Miles address these realities, but they also provide a strategy to keep you in the game of writing. Scholar and student alike will be well served by this work. I know I was.”—Daniel L. Akin, president, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

“Writers of all levels will find help in this book. It is clear, personal, and even enjoyable. More than that, it is wise, filled with guidance for those trying to get started, hope for those who feel stuck, and ideas for those who have published for decades.”—Chris Morgan, dean, School of Christian Ministries, professor of theology, California Baptist University

“There are lots of reasons why biblical scholars and theologians want to write but don’t. I can’t promise that this book is going to overcome all of them, but I can tell you that it is doing some serious damage to the excuses I’ve given myself in recent years. If you’re new to the professoriate and wondering how you’ll stay in the writing groove you inhabited during graduate school, or you’ve been a teacher or administrator or in another professional role for a while and have lost the momentum but not the desire, this is the book for you. Plenty of encouragement, plenty of advice, plenty of wisdom. Thank you, Ben and Adrianne!”—Michael Kibbe, associate professor of Bible, Great Northern University