Title: A Voice in the Wind Author: Francine Rivers Genre: Christian Ficiton Pages: 496 Intro and Characters in A Voice in the Wind The book opens with the ruthless destruction of Jerusalem from the perspective of a young Christian Jewess, Hadassah, decades after Christ walked the earth. Through the introduction of the its central characters, it slowly winds …
Character arcs. Every writer bite their nails over these. Readers too, though for you guys, you probably don’t bite your nails, pull on your hair, and pace your rooms for nearly as many hours as writers do over character arcs.
Before we dive into why character arcs are important, we need to answer what exactly is a character arc? Most people understand it to be an internal change a character undergoes: the farm boy turned hero, the pauper turned princess, the arrogant king humbled. I’d argue that, that’s a much too simplified…
I grew up absolutely adoring poetry. Some of my fondest memories include browsing through Caroline Kennedy’s A Family of Poems late into the night till my head began to nod and my eyes drooped. As a kid there was just something about short children’s poems about peculiar adults and their peculiar problems or a little …
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Title: The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate Author: John H. Walton Genre: Christian nonfiction Pages: 191 The Big Idea in The Lost World of Genesis One As complicated and polemic Genesis One may be, Christian professor John H. Walton does an admirable job of explaining how to interpret it and why his …
Today, I’m going to share with you 5 Christian nonfiction books I’ve recently added to my ever-lengthening “to-be-read” list.
Gloss over them, and let me know in the comments which ones you’re going to add to your TBR. Have you read any already? I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Title: Nervous Conditions Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga (first black female Zimbabwean author to publish in English) Genre: Coming of Age Pages: 204 An Overview of Nervous Conditions Set in 1960’s Zimbabwe, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions tells the story of child protagonist Tambu and the adults around her. Despite growing up under the shadow of her elder …
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I feel like I write this every time I start a post about my blogging process, but that doesn’t mean it loses its relevancy, so here we go again: dang blogging is not easy. For those of you nodding along, sighing “amen”, I’d like to give you a virtual high-five of solidarity. Since I’ve started …
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I’ve been winding through the book of Isaiah for the past two months. For me and for many Christians, Isaiah can seem rather daunting due to its length (a whopping 66 chapters!) and convoluted content. Despite its many themes, complicated historical context, and intra-scripture references, one prominent idea that peppers the entire book is the …
The Grape Vine Story My dad has this grape vine that he has been cultivating carefully for the past five years. Prior to planting the seed, he dug a little two feet deep plot, picking out jagged rocks, broken pottery, and gnarled roots in the process. He then filled the freshly dug plot with store …
If you know me, you know I like to read, from classics to fantasy to historical fictions to YA to travel books to Christian to sci-fi to news to even research papers (ok, I only include this last one because they’re assigned, but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them). Basically, this means I’ve picked …
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