tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:/groups/writing-by-christians/feed_activityFictionaut: Group Activity for "Writing by Christians"2016-04-28T17:04:45Ztag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/5372462016-04-28T17:04:45Z2016-04-28T17:04:45ZMathew Paust added the story "Play it, Sam"Mathew Paust<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/mathew-paust">Mathew Paust</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/mathew-paust/play-it-sam">Play it, Sam</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/5235262015-09-28T14:53:47Z2015-09-28T14:53:47ZSteven J. Kolbe added the story "Bonnie the Baptized"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/steven-j-kolbe/bonnie-the-baptized">Bonnie the Baptized</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/5205962015-08-19T14:21:50Z2015-08-19T14:21:50ZSteven J. Kolbe added the story "Second-Shift Parenting"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/steven-j-kolbe/second-shift-parenting">Second-Shift Parenting</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/5181992015-07-29T19:01:15Z2015-07-29T19:01:15ZSteven J. Kolbe added the story "Love at First Sight"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/steven-j-kolbe/love-at-first-sight">Love at First Sight</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/5152122015-06-29T13:06:27Z2015-06-29T13:06:27ZSteven J. Kolbe added the story "Clean Out Your Desk, Naps. You're Being Replaced."Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/steven-j-kolbe/clean-out-your-desk-naps-youre-being-replaced">Clean Out Your Desk, Naps. You're Being Replaced.</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/5088432015-05-01T16:17:07Z2015-05-01T16:17:07ZSteven J. Kolbe added the story "Gyrle (n.) - Boy or girl"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/steven-j-kolbe/gyrle-n-boy-or-girl">Gyrle (n.) - Boy or girl</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/5057332015-04-06T00:11:18Z2015-04-06T00:11:18ZSteven J. Kolbe added the story "Thirty-Two"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/steven-j-kolbe/thirty-two">Thirty-Two</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/5045132015-03-27T18:23:58Z2015-03-27T18:23:58ZSteven J. Kolbe posted to "Lunch"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/writing-by-christians/threads/2104">Lunch</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>Where did it go??</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/5044972015-03-27T15:47:37Z2015-03-27T15:47:37ZSteven J. Kolbe added the story "Day Care"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/steven-j-kolbe/day-care">Day Care</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4919462014-12-05T18:01:45Z2014-12-05T18:01:45ZSteven J. Kolbe added the story "An Advent Cookie's Rumination"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/steven-j-kolbe/an-advent-cookies-rumination">An Advent Cookie's Rumination</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4878262014-10-23T17:21:38Z2014-10-23T17:21:38ZFinnegan Flawnt added the story "Why I write"Finnegan Flawnt<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/finnegan-flawnt">Finnegan Flawnt</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/finnegan-flawnt/why-i-write">Why I write</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4871942014-10-18T19:34:02Z2014-10-18T19:34:02ZMathew Paust added the story "Tree Voices (revised)"Mathew Paust<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/mathew-paust">Mathew Paust</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/mathew-paust/tree-voices-revised--2">Tree Voices (revised)</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4863982014-10-12T18:09:51Z2014-10-12T18:09:51ZMathew Paust added the story "Jump Jackson and the Second Easter Mystery"Mathew Paust<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/mathew-paust">Mathew Paust</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/mathew-paust/jump-jackson-and-the-second-easter-mystery">Jump Jackson and the Second Easter Mystery</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4815502014-09-09T18:39:38Z2014-09-09T18:39:38ZAnn Bogle added the story "Monday Lunch"Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/ann-bogle/monday-lunch--3">Monday Lunch</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4815492014-09-09T18:38:17Z2014-09-09T18:38:17ZAnn Bogle posted to "Lunch"Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/writing-by-christians/threads/2104">Lunch</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>I turned the forum comment above into a story on Fictionaut: </p>
<p><a href="http://fictionaut.com/stories/ann-bogle/monday-lunch">http://fictionaut.com/stories/ann-bogle/monday-lunch</a></p>
<p>Odd for my own casual writing, there was only one word, besides the title, that struck me as a swing-word, one that could change. I don't know why it seemed that set.</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4741552014-07-24T05:35:31Z2014-07-24T05:35:31ZAnn Bogle posted to "Lunch"Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/writing-by-christians/threads/2104">Lunch</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>I am Bible in my reading. It takes about five good days to read a passage fully. 1 Samuel has been fully rich. OT is condensed and so is NT in a different way. Truth is mesmeric. For me and other people I know, the end is not nigh. Some people are beginning life anew with a fresh puppy. I did not grow up with The Second Coming. The Second Coming turned out to be a novel by Walker Percy. I recommend it. I felt in reading The Second Coming in the late 80s that a miracle of prose and dialogue were in progress as I turned pages. Naturally, the end felt nigh for Jesus' followers, in grief and steeped in his recent absence as they were, he their beloved. I like Jesus' sardonic outlook and philosophy. He was an observer of people, of men. I told a man over lunch that I had read that Jesus' words, those he was known to have spoken, gathered and read continuously, would amount to merely two hours of speech. He lived to be 33 and spoke hardly at all, if that is so. The man said that Jesus was a frequent guest speaker and proselyte. Proselyte means in Greek "a newcomer to Israel" and a stranger. The man may have told his wife, someone I haven't met, if my intuition serves, that I had witnessed to him. I realized he had given me three choices over lunch: A.) Jesus was a good man, a rabbi, or B.) Jesus was a preacher, or C.) Jesus never lived. The more I ventured to say, and all the while I stayed spare, the more the man reduced Jesus' chances and my right to my view. I liked it when the man said that no one has the right to tell someone else what to do except in getting someone off the Titanic.</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4726132014-07-13T21:37:46Z2014-07-13T21:37:46ZSteven J. Kolbe sent 3 stories to the group.Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
sent
3
stories to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4726112014-07-13T21:37:06Z2014-07-13T21:37:06ZSteven J. Kolbe posted to "The Bible as Writing/Fertility and Miraculous Birth"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/writing-by-christians/threads/2082">The Bible as Writing/Fertility and Miraculous Birth</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>There are a lot of sources on this subject, so I doubt I will be able add anything, but I do know that at the time of these first century writings there are a number of ways people prevented births. Early Christians were roundly against contraceptives of any kind. If fact, many today translate the magic and potions prohibited in the New Testament as references to various abotifacients and otherwise s sterilization methods. Furthermore, this was nothing new to the religion. The recounting of the flood and the ark is often seen as the Jewish response to similar stories of the time, stories which explained the flood as the answer to over population. The Jewish response was of course, Be fruitful and multiply!</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4638282014-05-15T08:21:53Z2014-05-15T08:21:53ZAnn Bogle posted to "The Bible as Writing/Fertility and Miraculous Birth"Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/writing-by-christians/threads/2082">The Bible as Writing/Fertility and Miraculous Birth</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>I have been trying to find out, using religious sources I have at home, whether fertility was under control in the cities and towns at Jesus' birth. I read Luke, where social conditions are somewhat detailed: taxation brought Joseph and Mary back to Bethlehem. That the religion endlessly celebrates the miraculous birth has only recently caused me to wonder whether fertility (population) was somehow being curbed. I read in Karen Armstrong's _A History of God_ that fertility cults of the Canaanites of the 10th c. A.D. existed; otherwise, I could not easily find references to birthing in her Biblical history. It also occurred to me that in all the religious art I have ever viewed in any museum or country, I had never seen religious art depicting the Birth itself, only depictions of Madonna and Child. It further occurred to me that while people seem unconvinced that Jesus was conceived in the usual way (distinction not expressed in Luke), people do not seem to doubt that he was born in the usual way. I'll seek more sources. A solid history of the period would be helpful. Lucretius wrote around the same time as Jesus' birth. I read Lucretius' poetry in translation excerpted in the Norton Anthology. It is about philosophy of death. Huston Smith notes that Lucretius was an atheist. The writing as writing in Luke is refreshing and new and follows Cicero (dull) in that anthology.</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4499632014-02-10T19:47:52Z2014-02-10T19:47:52ZSteven J. Kolbe added the story "Toweka: The Vanishing Elephant"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/steven-j-kolbe/toweka-the-vanishing-elephant">Toweka: The Vanishing Elephant</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4443082013-12-22T19:45:53Z2013-12-22T19:45:53ZAnn Bogle added the story "Hobo's Pastor"Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/ann-bogle/hobos-pastor">Hobo's Pastor</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4424762013-12-09T17:14:18Z2013-12-09T17:14:18ZAnn Bogle sent 4 stories to the group.Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
sent
4
stories to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4424682013-12-09T16:23:40Z2013-12-09T16:23:40ZAnn Bogle posted to "Christian + Writer"Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/writing-by-christians/threads/2017">Christian + Writer</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>I once read a mystery novel by a now-unknown-to-me author that another mystery novelist then living in rural Arkansas had given to me as a gift. I read it in the car on the way back through Missouri to Wisconsin. It was a mystery novel without murder. I believe faith was a component of the story. I went along the mystery of the story's trail, in a state of curiosity, appetite, suspense. I wonder whether Christian paradox might apply. Pair o' Dockers, as suburbanites might come to think of it and glance approvingly at their own brown shoes Wednesday evenings at Church.</p>
<p>Is one restricted or set free by truth and faith? I have not considered this topic as fiction writing is concerned, but I have considered it as the role memory plays in writing. Does memory guide or dictate creative decisions in design and composition?</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4418812013-12-04T23:02:10Z2013-12-04T23:02:10ZSteven J. Kolbe added the story "Writerly Tips #1: Christmas Story Challenge"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/steven-j-kolbe/writerly-tips-1-christmas-story-challenge">Writerly Tips #1: Christmas Story Challenge</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4398202013-11-19T18:43:50Z2013-11-19T18:43:50ZCarl Santoro added the story "A Walk Down Delancey"Carl Santoro<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/carl-santoro">Carl Santoro</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/carl-santoro/a-walk-down-delancey">A Walk Down Delancey</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4371102013-10-30T21:20:41Z2013-10-30T21:20:41ZMarcus Speh added the story "Tinpot Love"Marcus Speh<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/marcus-speh--3">Marcus Speh</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/marcus-speh--3/tinpot-love">Tinpot Love</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4354392013-10-17T13:54:17Z2013-10-17T13:54:17ZSteven J. Kolbe added the story "In the Dillard's Parking Lot"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/steven-j-kolbe/in-the-dillards-parking-lot">In the Dillard's Parking Lot</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4301302013-09-13T03:27:54Z2013-09-13T03:27:54ZSteven J. Kolbe posted to "Christian + Writer"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/writing-by-christians/threads/2017">Christian + Writer</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>What does it mean to be a Christian writer? Is one restricted or set free by truth and faith?</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4301292013-09-13T03:26:48Z2013-09-13T03:26:48ZSteven J. Kolbe added the story "New skin"Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/steven-j-kolbe/new-skin">New skin</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4301262013-09-13T03:17:50Z2013-09-13T03:17:50ZSteven J. Kolbe formed this group.Steven J. Kolbe<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/steven-j-kolbe">Steven J. Kolbe</a></div>
formed the group
<a href="/groups/writing-by-christians">Writing by Christians</a>.
</div>