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@kayla-skywriter I know you just said that your questions were answered and so this conversation is essentially over and I should just keep my mouth shut, but this is such an interesting thread and I can’t help but jumping in on the convo! 🙃

I would agree with @taylorclogston that we shouldn’t write about a denomination just to be argumentative or to try and convince everybody that we are the “right ones”. But like @jenwriter17 said the things we believe are going to leak through into our writing and that is okay and even good.

I have come to the conclusion that I want my stories to be more about the hope and grace of Jesus than pointing out why the denomination I belong to is the right one. There are people dying and going to hell every day…why am I sitting around getting into arguments over what kind of clothes someone should wear or whether TV is okay or not? GOD HAVE MERCY. (Ya’ll proabaly don’t hear people arguing about that where you come from, but the denomination I belong to gets tied in knots over this kind of stuff. 🤦‍♀️ It’s kind of sad, tbh.)

I can relate to what you said about not having any books written from the viewpoint of your denomination. I’m a mennonite and anababtist writers are almost nonexistent. (Well good ones at least.) So the vast majority of Christian books I read whether fiction or nonfiction, would be from a Evangelical standpoint. (like Baptist or Presbyterian) That honestly doesn’t bother me, but it would be fun to see more Anabaptist literature.

I don’t intentionally write from my anabaptist standpoint because I don’t think anybody outside of my denomination would be interested in reading about a menno protagonist. 😜 (That’s probably NOT a good reason, but oh well. 🙃) That said I know the things I believe about Jesus and the world and culture leak into my writing.