a fantastic guide for the intersection of faith and writing!

This will be a short and sweet review, but I've just finished reading this text to specifically use it as a textbook for my introductory writing and research class for college freshmen this upcoming fall! I've taught two previous groups of students within this course with slightly different curriculum, but am particularly excited to integrate the main concepts and framework of this book into this third round of my teaching. I have no doubt there's a very real and powerful intersection between faith and writing (even more specifically, the Christian tradition and writing). Having this text to use as a guide for not only writing instruction, but helping students grasp how their levels of faith and spirituality can manifest in the classroom, is truly fantastic. I also love the multimodal elements of this book, namely the relevant artwork, diagrams, and pictures used throughout, as well as the many footnotes connecting the text to all sorts of other research voices and conversations. I'm looking forward to my time this fall with my students and the time we'll spend with this book and its wisdom. :) 



Some of my favorite quotes from Charitable Writing:

"Education in writing, we saw, needed to be interwoven with education in Christian Scripture and tradition."

"Imitation, instead, has long been understood as a catalyst for what rhetoricians call invention, 'the making of something new by remaking the old.'"

"We are always writing for an audience..."

"Humility is the virtue that allows us to see not only our finitude and fallenness but also the goods of our communities. It allows us to recognize that we don't have all the answers."

"...humility means adopting a proper regard for our own thinking as we swim in the broad sea of ideas."

"The best contributions to class discussions are often questions."

"Christians are a listening people..."

"...a Christian writer is not duty bound to write from an explicitly Christian standpoint all the time."

"Simply stated: we may write to learn what we think."

"The kingdom of God is a topic whose richness we can never exhaust."

"To revise is to strive to welcome the stranger into our thinking."

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