Patty Kirk Patty Kirk is writer in residence and professor of English at John Brown University in Arkansas. She is an award-winning writer and author of Confessions of an Amateur Believer, Starting from Scratch: Memoirs of a Wandering Cook, and The Easy Burden of Pleasing God. Contact Patty Kirk Give to Patty Kirk Content created by this author: December 28, 2016 Patty Kirk The Gospel of Christmas If I, a woman, were to write the gospel of the entry of God into the world as one of us, I’m pretty sure I would not start with his human genealogy, as Matthew does.