Belinda Pollard, Donita Bundy and Alison Joy celebrate four years of the podcast by going back to the beginning… our very first episode, WHAT IS GRACEWRITING?, which continues to be one of our most popular. At this time in history, for some reason God seems to be moving in a new way among creatives, using us to reach places and people that might not be open to other forms of communication. Whether you’ve joined Gracewriters recently or been with us from the start, we hope you enjoy touching base with who we are and what we’re all about.
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In conversation in this episode:
- Belinda Pollard, author of mainstream crime novels, writing coach, accredited editor with qualifications in theology, writing and publishing blogger at smallbluedog.com, and Gracewriters founder
- Donita Bundy, writing teacher, preacher and author of the Armour of Light supernatural fiction series
- Alison Joy, romance author, former early childhood teacher and mother of 4 adult children
Topics covered in this episode:
- How did Gracewriters begin, and what is Gracewriting?
- Changing the way Christians – and Jesus! – are portrayed and perceived in popular culture.
- How the idea for a Gracewriters Podcast developed, and the value of looking at the writing process, in fellowship, from a Christian perspective.
- How Belinda, Alison and Donita got involved in writing in the first place.
- Why we can sometimes find it hard to pray about our writing – worrying that we are “bothering God” – when in reality he loves to hear from us.
- The particular opportunities and difficulties for Christians who write for mainstream markets, and how we can work as a team.
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Belinda Pollard: Today we celebrate four years of the Gracewriters Podcast by revisiting our very first episode, “what is Gracewriting?” an episode that’s still getting new listeners after all this time. It’s been interesting for us to look back at our 2020 selves, sitting there so excited to discover the possibilities of podcasting amid the strange and isolating world of those early months of the Covid pandemic. Remember that time?
Whether you’ve joined Gracewriters recently or been with us from the start, we hope you find it helpful to touch base with who we are and what we’re all about. Over the past four years it’s only become clearer to me that at this time in history, for some reason God seems to be moving in a new way among creatives – and I know there’s a lot of other people who have felt that happening as well – using us to reach places and people that perhaps might not be open to other forms of communication.
We hope you enjoy the first of this short series of Classic Episodes, “What is Gracewriting?”
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