What is it to be a Christian Writer?
With the rebirth of the clubs section, it’s a pertinent question.
I don’t think there’s any one answer, but what does it look like to you?
Maybe they’re divergent ideas. You’re a Christian, and you write, and those aspects of your life don’t need to interact directly.
Maybe you’re concerned about the disconnect between modern society and the language of the Church, and you see your writing as a great way to write about Christian ideas in a way accessible to society at large.
Maybe your writing isn’t necessarily about Christian ideas, but is modulated by them. Maybe it affects what you choose to portray in the sense of sex, violence, and language, but not the themes and ideas you’re looking at in your writing.
Maybe none of these apply, but is it a question worth asking?
I’m not looking for a right/wrong framework (“you’re not a real Christian Writer unless…”).
I’m happy for people to post links to their own work as examples of what they’re trying to get across, but this isn’t a thread to freely plug your works:
Christian and Writing.
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I was actually thinking of this the other day. One of the most famous Catholic fictional modern writers is Flannery O'Connor, and she wrote this work: [url=http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/goodman.html]A Good Man is Hard to Find." And, if you read it, it's just overwhelmingly painful. Not in the beginning, mind you! If you read the beginning, it seems tame enough, and even a bit cute, with the grandma being such a grandma, and so on and so forth. But, by the end, I was horrified by what eventually took place. And, it wasn't glorifying violence or anything bad -- far be it! And, the gospel was preached and discussed! But STILL.
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Well, one saying I heard - Never apologise for writing fiction. If it wasn't a valid method of speaking truth Jesus wouldn't have taught in parables
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Ooh, Flannery O'Connor is one of my favorites.
(I'll respond to the questions soon!)
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