70 episodes
Rewrite Radio Festival of Faith & Writing
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- Religion & Spirituality
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4.8 • 32 Ratings
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Rewrite Radio is the podcast of the Festival of Faith & Writing (#FFWgr), a biennial celebration of literature and belief in Grand Rapids, MI.
Festival is the flagship initiative of the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing (CCFW), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit fostering scholarship & community around the literary arts.
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#67 Virginia Stem Owens 1994
#67 Virginia Stem Owens 1994 by Festival of Faith & Writing
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#65 Clare Vanderpool
In episode #65 of Rewrite Radio, Newbery Medal winner Clare Vanderpool shares how stories transform us and how to maintain our most honest selves. She also sings a few yodel-ay-hee’s from her book Moon Over Manifest.
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#64 Jennifer Trafton
In episode #64 of Rewrite Radio, Jennifer Trafton teaches her listeners and students that play is at the heart of creativity. She draws on her experiences as a child and in the classroom to invite writers to play so that the idea brings something new to the world.
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#63 Diane Glancy and Sefi Atta
In episode #63 of Rewrite Radio, Sefi Atta and Diane Glancy offer their own thoughts on writing across the borders of religion, culture, language and more.
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#62 Jeff Zentner
In episode #62 of Rewrite Radio, Jeff Zentner tells how he invited his characters to live inside his head for months in order to let them tell their own stories. He encourages listeners to write who fascinates them and that the story threads will follow.
Theme music is Modern Attempt by TrackTribe and June 11 by Andrew Starr.
Customer Reviews
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In terms of content, this podcast can’t be beat. Fabulous talks, panels, and readings. I listen to every one. I just wish they would post reliably around the calendar. Keep it simple — the added introductions are unnecessary, and worse if they make it hard to get new posts up.
The festival for the off season!
Great conversations! Many an urban hike has been enhanced by these thought-provoking gems!
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It's no surprise to me that Frederick Buechner's talk is so beloved. "Pay attention!" he says; reminding us, as Tolstoy did, of what is most essential - not only for the artist, but for the fully alive human being: "In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you!" Unless we look, we don't see; unless we see, we can't love. What matters more than that? For Anaxagoras the whole purpose of our lives on earth is "to behold." But modern life beguiles (from Middle English: to trick, deceive) us with technological distractions ('to draw - or drag - away.') - it's tragically easy to lose sight of all that is essential. T.S. Eliot complained - 80 years ago! - of our being "so distracted from distraction by distraction;" he would be stunned to see the extent to which the ubiquitous screens have exacerbated the problem!
I have listened to Rev. Buechner's talk several times and will listen many more. Thank you so much for making that possible!