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2011 Writing Contest Resource Page

admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:44:32 +0000

CONFERENCE HALL LINK

This page will be updated with resources as presenters make them available.

John R. Erickson

Story Craft: Reflections On Faith, Culture, and Writing By the Author of Hank the Cowdog

On Kindle

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Anthony Horvath

Executive Director of Athanatos Christian Ministries

Anthony will be drawing on his own short story, Polite Company, to make some points. It is available on Kindle and Nook. He will also be using one of unpublished stories, In Full Color. You are strongly advised to have this read prior to the conference. You may download it here:

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ACM’s Writing Workshop

ACM’s online apologetics conference

Dr. Holly Ordway

Author of Not God’s Type

Founder of Hieropraxis.com.

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Dr. Ordway is requesting paragraph submissions from our conference attendees. She will select several paragraphs to use to work with in her presentation. Selected paragraphs will be utilized without revealing who sent them. Please send them to her directly by email at: hollyordway@gmail.com

Shirley Tucker

Author of the soon to be released book: Diamonds in the Dust

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Robert Cely

“Reading Wine” short story.

Jamie Greening

Author of The Haunting of Pastor Butch Gregory and other Short Stories

Robert Kramer

Screenwriter and Contributing Editor of Christian Video Magazine.

Robert Abernathy

Author of The Walk to Walden Hill.

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online apologetics discussion forum

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:33:41 +0000

Apologist Anthony Horvath was active in the earliest days of Internet debating. Originally participating in a now defunct website, he created his own at sntjohnny.com and invited the members of the original one to come to his after it was clear the original one was going to close.

After a good five years on the sntjohnny.com domain, the forum has now been moved to http://swordoftruth.us/. While the domain is fresh, and the forum is in its fifth, sixth, or even tenth incarnation, many of the members have known each other and have been debating for closing in on 15 years. That makes it one of the longest-lived communities on the web!

Unlike other Christian discussion forums, this one allows atheists to really speak their mind; the same latitude is given to Christians.

apologetics as keeping Christians from falling away in the first place

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:17:14 +0000

Over the last decade I have become aware of just how much the Church itself plays in generating nonbelievers. It should have dawned on me sooner, as I myself was raised in the church. I had 12 years of Christian schooling and was studying to be a pastor at a Christian university when all of the hard questions came. I foolishly thought that just because I didn’t know the answers that Christianity had none. Despite my own experience I didn’t give much attention to the thought that I had been ‘set up’ for unbelief.

In 2007, my claim that the Church is producing atheists was aired on the ChristianPost.com and I received a flood of emails and contacts, most of them Christians who completely agreed.

Today, the claim is not controversial because it is obvious to everyone.

When I made that claim, I had already been thinking about ways in which this trend can be addressed and corrected. The broader vision of Athanatos Christian Ministries is to raise awareness and to try to create and implement solutions to this particular issue.

Ultimately, there will have to be some discussion about how we educate our young, what unspoken positions we promote regarding study and learning, and probably how we do ”church” in the first place.

Such topics are controversial by their very nature. Unfortunately, a lot of folks are battling over the ‘wrong hill.’ They are defending the wrong ‘front line.’ ACM aims to devote its energy to fighting the real fights of our time, choosing wisely which hill is worth ‘dying’ on.

The core truth driving the ministries of ACM at this point is that the transmission of the Christian faith in America is broken. To fix it, we ought not abandon anything good, wherever it is found, as all good things come from God (James 1:17) and he has given them to us.

For ACM, every tool is on the table… the arts, sciences, education, etc…

It will be an uphill battle, but ACM believes it is worth fighting- so long as it is the right hill.