Fresh Insights from Writers Bobbie Cole and Paul Kerensa - by SC Skillman
For all those who attended the online Writers Day held by the Association of Christian Writers on Saturday 3rd October 2020, fresh insights, new ideas and imaginative approaches were on offer. If we were to represent the day in terms of classic story structure I think it is true to say that most of us went on a journey, met our mentors, made contact with our allies, learned, grew, changed, and came back again to our everyday world with a gift. From Bobbie Cole we received the opportunity to explore the difference between satire and mockery, and to examine what lies behind "using" characters and events from scripture, and "exploiting" them; and this was followed by the chance to brainstorm several different elements in the story of Peter and Cornelius in the book of Acts . After that we were given ten minutes to produce a piece of written work inspired by just one of the characters in that story. I saw the story with new eyes afterwards, and also identified a n...