On Making Room for Grief to Interrupt
I ordered a small cup of brewed coffee with a lot of cream. Then I sat down and read about a stranger’s grief over her father’s death that holds many similarities to my grief over my father’s death.
Read MoreVideo Series: Behind the Scenes with The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other (Chapter Fourteen)
Charlotte Donlon goes behind the scenes and provides additional information about Chapter Fourteen of her first book, The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other.
Read MoreWriting and Faith: Liz Charlotte Grant
Grant says her faith and writing are connected primarily through her understanding of the beauty of God being an unnecessary abundance. She appreciates how the artist Makoto Fujimura talks about the passage of the woman washing Jesus’s feet with her hair and how she will be remembered by that act.
Read MoreWriting and Faith: Judy Douglass
Douglass said she doesn’t have a specific writing schedule because writing is not her primary vocation. “It is a major way that I do the things I think God sends me to do, which is communicating and encouraging people in their walks with God. If you were to ask me to pick the word that describes me, it's ‘encourage,’ and writing and speaking are the two most visible ways I do that, but I also do a lot of one-on-one conversations.
Read MoreWriting and Faith: Derek Vreeland
Vreeland’s writing journey and faith journey overlap a great deal. During his junior year of high school, his track coach and English teacher encouraged him to write. He told Vreeland, “You have a voice. You have something to say. You should write from a Christian perspective.” He ended up heeding that advice and took an advanced humanities course in high school where he began his writing journey.
Read MoreWriting and Faith: Gina Dalfonzo
In her first book, One by One, which came out in 2017, Dalfonzo wrote about single people in the church. The topic was very important to her, and she worked on it for several years. She says, “I wanted to get that experience out there and tell other Christians about it and help other Christians navigate being single in the church. I also wanted to help the church as a whole know we’re out there, these are the kinds of things we’re going through, and we need you to listen and try to understand, and work with us.”
Read MoreWriting and Faith: Kori Frazier Morgan
Kori Frazier Morgan wasn’t raised with a Christian background. Her parents wanted her to explore her faith on her own when she was ready. She was very anti-God during her teens and into college and had a good amount of anger towards God. But everything changed when she went to college.
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