By Wendy Parker Do you feel like you’ve missed the memo on your calling? Tired of getting distracted and confused in this faith journey you have begun? Has all that worrying, second-guessing and wondering whether God has set you on the right path and if He is for you caused you to want to forget …
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Devotional | The Two Faces of Freedom
By Sally Hewitt Freedom: the condition or right of being able or allowed to do, say, think, etc. whatever you want to, without being controlled or limited. Contemplating my topic for this month’s blog, I remembered a conversation with someone a while ago who told me that Christianity wasn’t for him because it took away …
Take The Long View
By Wendy Parker Being faithful and committed to the calling in my life hasn’t always been easy as I have watched others land their dream jobs and get promoted. Although I am in my final year of study and I’m excited to finish, there is one thing I’ve learned over the past five years of …
The Value of Writing Retreats
By Nola Lorraine Have you ever been on a writer’s retreat? I’ve been on eight, so there must be something that keeps bringing me back. Is it the time to write? The networking? The input and mentoring? The fun and fellowship? The pool? Well, it’s all of those and more. What is a Writer’s Retreat? …
Author Interview | Monica Bruenjes
by Morgan Tarpley Smith Today, our guest is American children’s author and illustrator Monica Bruenjes, who is the creator of the delightful book series for young children, Penguin & Peep. Welcome to the ACW blog, Monica! We’re glad to have you. Thank you for answering our questions. Fast Five Cricket or rugby? My husband played …
The Writing Life: Inspiration from place
By Donna Fletcher Crow Settings have always been one of the most important aspects of a story to me. I frequently—almost always, even—choose the films I watch or the books I read based on where they are set. I regularly shape my plots around places I want to go for research. Past Travels Come to …
An Open Heart Opens Your Passion
By Wendy Parker As the saying goes, ‘Practice makes perfect’ but practice can never make anything perfect. We live in a flawed, imperfect world and practice and perfection cannot coexist because one will inevitably cancel out the other. Perfect is about avoiding mistakes in the process of practice and the sense that everything needs to …
Writer’s Life | A View of One’s Own
By Louise Crossley What does Anno Domini (AD), Virginia Woolf and modern society have in common? Read on to find out. Stereotyping; the bane of our existence By now, we all see the stark reality that only a portion of us is represented in literature. And from that portion, only a portion is represented authentically. …
Clearing Out The Clutter
By Wendy Parker A few years ago, I decided I would become a minimalist. Inspired one evening after watching a Netflix documentary about how to live a simplistic and minimal lifestyle. I eyed up, and stared down every object, every article of clothing and each gizmo we had collected and accumulated over the years because …
Devotional | Finding Freedom in God’s Directives
By Sally Hewitt Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Saviour, and my hope is in you all day long.- Psalm 25:4-5 NIV Did you set resolutions at the beginning of the year? If so, how are they going? Gone …
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