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What are the rules for writing a blog?
Of course I hope it will encourage you to buy and share the fiction titles I have written, but more importantly, I hope to encourage and inspire by taking a deeper look at life through a Christian worldview lens. There are so many troubling things that occur in life and our responses to these situations are important. I’ve been tempted to spout my angst and ideas on social media, but realise that is often not fruitful. Usually it can be destructive in terms of words spoken that harm and don’t heal. But that doesn’t mean I don’t think, ponder, consider, listen, research, listen for God’s wisdom. I’d like to say I know it all, but I don’t. Ha. I guess that’s not such a big surprise.
Anyway, I’ve been constructing a non-fiction book chapter by chapter, based on these thoughts, considerations and listening, but the publishing world is brutal at the moment, and selling a book is hard work. So I’ve decided to make it available to you as a blog (probably outside all the rules of blog writing).
Click here to follow through to the blog. https://meredithresce.com/2021/11/24/alrighty-then-part-1/
Truth is Like a Skeleton
‘Truth! Truth! You can’t handle the truth!’ [1] You remember the film A Few Good Men, where Tom Cruise is passionately demanding that Jack Nicholson tell the truth, and back comes the classic line. ‘You can’t handle the truth.’ In our current social climate where critical thinking is part of our education system, very much a result of the Post Structuralist movement of the mid-twentieth Century, truth as a concept has become abstract and experiential, and to a large degree, unknowable. The deconstruction of past ideals and philosophies has...
read moreOrganising Jesus – Part 2
Let me tell you how it was that I came to start writing novels (you know those stories that aren’t true). Back when I was newly married, my husband and I worked in youth ministry. In the 1980s, church leaders were encouraged to phone up their parishioners and try to help them out of any trouble they may be facing. Following this model closely, I was often aware of drama that was going on in different people’s lives. I was quite young and not as mature as I thought I was. When I would learn of a certain situation, I would think about it all...
read moreOrganising Jesus – part 1
Come February each year, many churches around the country encourage their people to take the month to pray and fast (albeit a partial fast). One year, when we came to this time, I’d had a bit of a tough few months and was set to get into the prayer and fasting, almost as if I was going to sort God out. It was like he’d lost focus and I was about to get him back on track. Needless to say, I had a bit of a revelation about this, and hence this chapter came into being. Organising Jesus isn’t a new concept One particular day, as I was...
read moreAlrighty Then – Part 2
Following on from part 1, let’s look further at how our addiction to being right affects our life and how we live it. How then, are we supposed to worship? What becomes even more troubling than ordinary folks contesting positions on certain social justice and political issues, is when Christians enter into similar arguments concerning how different Christian groups and denominations express their faith in worship. I find it sad and disturbing when I read one Christian group criticising or even denouncing another Christian group for...
read moreAlrighty Then – Part 1
I like to be right. In fact it would be fair to say, I’m obsessed with being right. I certainly don’t like to be wrong, and just quietly, I have worked hard to make sure I don’t find myself in that place where I might appear to be without all the answers. And that is all well and good until some bright spark pops up with a truly deep and disturbing question, the answer to which I have not a clue. Are you like that? When I do come to the awareness that I might be wrong, apart from feeling vastly uncomfortable, I like to be the one who comes up...
read moreNew Book Release
New light-hearted, contemporary Christian romance series from Meredith Resce Book two in this new and engaging series is now available from all bookselling platforms, and from Christian Bookstores in Australia. Good friend and fellow author, Narelle Atkins, and posted the following kind review blog: Book Recommendation – In Want of a Wife by Meredith Resce If you enjoy these stories, help get the word out to other readers in your community by posting a rating or short review on the site where you bought the book, or on Good Reads. These...
read moreNew Light-hearted Contemporary Romance Series
This new series starts with Book #1 Organized Backup – released in November 2020. Regency romance author, Luella Linley, arranges her characters’ lives, making sure that they weather all storms and live happily-ever-after. Her characters are putty in her hands, but her 21st Century adult children are not so easily organized. When her daughter, Megan, asks for support with an inappropriate situation at work, Luella decides Megan should get a boyfriend to intimidate her boss. The cop who just pulled Luella over for speeding is a likely...
read moreWhat is Australia Day all about?
An Australian Sunset Flinders Ranges SA Have you ever read any Australian Christian Fiction? I know there are heaps of readers out there who have, but many who haven’t. Even Australian readers of Christian Fiction have either not heard about our popular Christian Fiction authors, or they have fallen under the usual idea – if it’s Australian, it can’t be very good. Just in case you accidentally thought that, I need to let you into a little secret. WRONG! There are some outstanding Australasian Christian Fiction authors, and if you haven’t yet...
read moreEchoes in the Valley – #6 in the Heart of Green Valley Series
After nearly 14 years, the next chapter in the very popular ‘Heart of Green Valley’ series is now available. This story picks up about 14 years after the last story ended, 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression. Grace Shore has learned to live with the loss of her first love, and has vowed she will never love anyone else. When Johnny Laslett was killed in the Great War, so was her capacity to love. Or that is what she thought. Alex Moreland has been on the road for two years looking for work wherever he can find it. He has his...
read moreMortal Insight – Why would you write that?
What For? Since the release of ‘Mortal Insight’ I have often been asked the question: ‘Why did you write under a different name?’ My simple answer to that was because ‘Mortal Insight’ as a piece of fiction is NOTHING like any other story that I have written. In my eighteen years of having published fiction in the market, I have meddled with other genres – time travel adventure; murder mystery; religious allegory; contemporary drama – and of course my bread and butter genre, period drama romance. Everything I have put out til now has made...
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