A Bold Step - for me
Two years ago I attended Write to Publish at Wheaton College. If you EVER get the opportunity, please take it! I learned much and received a great deal of encouragement and support with projects I was working on. The encouragement pushed me to take a big step and submitting a proposal for a historical fiction I wrote about the Roman soldier Cornelius from the Bible. There are a great many men and women of faith in the Bible. I read about the Jesus' disciples, the older prophets, but we are not told about their lives leading up to those stories. In the Book of Acts we hear of Cornelius, his support for a synagogue and the Judean's support for him when Peter asks about Cornelius. What we don't see is the how and why those relationships developed. Culturally, the came from two different cultures, two different theistic schools of belief, and one was the conqueror, one the conquered. Several years ago I decided to research and write a plausible story that might explain the bac...