Last week, the writing workshop Writing to Change the World: A Week with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove focused on both the craft of writing and the vocation of tending to words for the sake of faithful social change.
Workshop leader Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove shared that his highlight was “watching fear melt away in this group; once they heard one another’s voices, a palpable solidarity emerged. Beautiful to see.”
Participants took away many insights and ideas, of which the following are a few:
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“Let struggle speak. I need to get in touch with my own struggle and write about if before I can get deeper into the larger struggle.”
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“Jonathan asked us how our writing contributes to Shalom, and challenged us that if it didn’t, we may be doing damage. This is such a different frame than what I was given in grad school, but I also felt completely at home in wrestling with it, like (it was) something I should be doing.”
We look forward to following this group of writers, as they use words to change the world that is into the world that ought to be.
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