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“Wasn’t I—with my MFA in writing, my job teaching college composition, my failure of a novel—pretty, like, unqualified?”
“In fact, any preacher who is sure they know exactly what their congregation needs to hear is a preacher full of shit.”
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“Was I just looking for another audience—and a captive one at that—to replace the readers who had failed to materialize?”
“If a congregant were asked over lunch what my sermon had been about, and they were left stammering, then I had failed.”
“As I kept writing new sermons, I kept realizing how much I needed a sense of the congregation to be part of my writing.”
“My good news—my gospel, if you will—is about how the view from the pulpit helped me as a writer of fiction.”
“My novel wasn’t getting traction because it didn’t have any treads.”
“I assure you the literary world made no such mistake about me.”
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“It didn’t take long, after my return to church, for me to realize that I was interested in preaching myself.”
“* All beginning writers are taught to worry about audience .”
“It was in the context of my ongoing failure as a fiction writer that I wound up in the pulpit.”
“and while this perspective sometimes offered a flicker of hope, it always went out, because I couldn’t trick myself into thinking that this was actually a private missive.”
“I saw that I would have to commit to a story the way a preacher commits to a text, accepting its limitations before I could explore its depth.”
“How can we meet enough of those interests to be satisfying while also subverting enough of them to be intriguing?”
“Writing a sermon—or a story, essay, or poem—is an exercise in risk and vulnerability.”
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