That's a very perceptive question.
The fiction I write contains characters in deep need of redemption - some are what our society might call throw-away people. My understanding of the nature of God is that His love is never-failing, though we, His Creation, often fail Him, and get ourselves into deep trouble at times of our own volition…
The fiction I write contains characters in deep need of redemption - some are what our society might call throw-away people. My understanding of the nature of God is that His love is never-failing, though we, His Creation, often fail Him, and get ourselves into deep trouble at times of our own volition. To this extent my fiction is deeply rooted in my faith in Him and in His Word; if we come to Him and believe in Him, He promises to redeem us. That includes loving and guiding us.
With this in mind, it does seem there is a common foundation for my fiction and my Bible teaching, devotional writings, etc.
To try to say all the other forms of my writing comes from somewhere else seems artificial. It is like saying my kitchen is set apart from the rest of my house - that it has a foundation completely separate and unattached. I may enjoy the kitchen more than other rooms in the house, but they are all connected.
Gear-shifting: If anything is different for me, it would be the head space required to write colorful, meaningful characters vs. the discipline it requires to fastidiously examine passages of Scripture in order to accomplish effective exposition.
Thank you for your response. This is an enlightening conversation for me.
Much the same in many ways as how the issues I find important and interesting in life are the ones that infuse my fiction. As a humanist (mostly, more-or-less), the themes in my books can be fairly easily tied to that perspective on life. Part of the fascinating challenge in writing is to write characters who *don't* see the world from that perspective.
Glad you're enjoying the conversation! Substack seems to foster a very high calibre of community interaction, I've found.
That's a very perceptive question.
The fiction I write contains characters in deep need of redemption - some are what our society might call throw-away people. My understanding of the nature of God is that His love is never-failing, though we, His Creation, often fail Him, and get ourselves into deep trouble at times of our own volition. To this extent my fiction is deeply rooted in my faith in Him and in His Word; if we come to Him and believe in Him, He promises to redeem us. That includes loving and guiding us.
With this in mind, it does seem there is a common foundation for my fiction and my Bible teaching, devotional writings, etc.
To try to say all the other forms of my writing comes from somewhere else seems artificial. It is like saying my kitchen is set apart from the rest of my house - that it has a foundation completely separate and unattached. I may enjoy the kitchen more than other rooms in the house, but they are all connected.
Gear-shifting: If anything is different for me, it would be the head space required to write colorful, meaningful characters vs. the discipline it requires to fastidiously examine passages of Scripture in order to accomplish effective exposition.
Thank you for your response. This is an enlightening conversation for me.
Much the same in many ways as how the issues I find important and interesting in life are the ones that infuse my fiction. As a humanist (mostly, more-or-less), the themes in my books can be fairly easily tied to that perspective on life. Part of the fascinating challenge in writing is to write characters who *don't* see the world from that perspective.
Glad you're enjoying the conversation! Substack seems to foster a very high calibre of community interaction, I've found.