I’ve had many conversations with Christian writers about the idea of “calling,” that writing is a calling from God. Most will agree; some even will identify a specific time when they experienced the calling.
I can’t. Writing has been a part of my life since I can remember. I was raised in a culturally Christian home, but I had been writing for almost 12 years by the time I became a Christian. I wrote my first story when I was 10; I don’t remember much about it except it was a mystery, involved a group of kids, and featured a grandfather clock that opened to a secret passage and a cave.
Jared Wilson has had a far different experience. In The Storied Life: Christian Writing as Art and Worship, he develops the idea of writing as a specific calling (a kind of ministry, for those unfamiliar with “calling”) and goes so far as the suggest a theology of writing.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.
Some Wednesday Readings
Gollum is getting his own spinoff. But is it really necessary? – Brittany Allen at Literary Hub.
‘All Nature Has a Feeling,’ poem by John Clare – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Blessing (For One Who Has Blessed) – poem by David Whyte.
Intolerance Unmasked: The Persecution of Harrison Butker – John Horvat at The Imaginative Conservative.
Dandelions – poem by Cynthia Erlandson at Society of Classical Poets.
