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Great topic guys! I really enjoyed reading through this.

I love putting diversity of all sorts in my stories, because I feel like it makes the world I’m writing about more like the world I live in. In the class for the dog training course I’m doing at the moment, out of eight people, we have one man from South Korea, one woman from Poland and one woman from Sweden. And that’s just counting the different ethnic backgrounds.

I randomly stayed at an AirBnB and spent hours talking to one of the guests who was from Indonesia and the whole week chatting to the South African hosts about South Africa.

I’m good friends with a lady from Nepal and a good portion of our church is Asian.

There’s just a lot of diversity in the world and I love being able to portray it. It makes me sad when so many Christian authors dismiss adding diversity to Christian books as being automatically “SJW” so I’m glad we’re having this discussion on here!

I would love to see depictions of real anxiety and PTSD in Christian fiction. There’s been some great secular YA novels to deal with these topics lately and I would love to see our fiction catching up to that.

And I’d love to see more D/deaf rep! Especially for speakers of languages other than ASL!