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Revelation to Allegory: The Heart Behind Wrath of the Mountain King

BY: O.R. Sykora Where does a story come from, and how do its roots grow? There may be as many answers to this question as there are writers in the world. Perhaps there’s a different answer for every story ever written. Years ago, while the plot for Son of the Mountain...

Earl’s Ultimatum Author Interview Questions: Faith and Love

In the pages of The Earl's Ultimatum we meet Andrew Beaumont, caught between duty and conscience as his father’s ultimatum forces him toward marriage, and Lucy Grant, who finds quiet strength through prayer and the symbolic Dara Knot. Their journey unfolds against the...

JoJo’s Transformation: A Free Prequel to Under the August Sky

Before John Johanssen ever set foot in Emerald Valley as the man readers meet in Under the August Sky, he was a shy, insecure young adult everyone had once called "Fat JoJo," and who was carrying four years of high school humiliation onto a college campus three...

Guest Post: How Leprosy and a Servant Girl became Providence

Teaching elementary chapel from kindergarten through fifth grade—all at one time—was a joy for me. I had thirty minutes to sing, pray, and teach stories from the Bible. One particular series studied young people in the Bible who did great things. I dramatized David versus Goliath, Gideon and his glow stick bearing army (the Israelites had torches but those aren’t school approved) and a servant girl in the Book of II Kings who bravely spoke up about a prophet in Israel who could heal

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