Rewrite Radio is the podcast of the Festival of Faith & Writing, a biennial celebration of literature and belief in Grand Rapids, MI. Festival is the flagship initiative of the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing (CCFW), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit fostering scholarship & community around the literary arts.
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On this episode of Rewrite Radio , Anne Bogel, Byron Borger, and Karen Swallow Prior join Jennifer Holberg to explore how reading shapes empathy, humility, and imagination. Drawing from bookselling, teaching, and curation, this lively conversation considers why stories matter in distracted, polarized times—and how reading in community can transform how we understand others. Theme music is Modern…
“Enneagram godmother” Suzanne Stabile joins poet and pastor Sam Gutierrez at the 2024 Festival of Faith & Writing for a wide-ranging conversation on wisdom, creativity, and compassion. Stabile reflects on writing, faith, and the Enneagram as a spiritual tool for deeper self-understanding, healthier relationships, and a kinder world.
In this episode of Rewrite Radio , journalist and author Jim Dahlman reflects on the perceived tension between faith and journalism. Drawing on stories from his reporting and writing, Dahlman explores objectivity, curiosity, and the moral responsibilities of storytelling—inviting listeners to see journalism as a practice that can honor truth, humility, and the sacred in everyday lives.
What is the source of power in fantasy literature? Listen along as author Matthew Dickerson investigates the magical universes of C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and J.R.R. Tolkien, discussing how each author portrays magic as power, with inevitably severe implications regarding good and evil. In an uncanny reflection of the state of modern humanity, Dickerson unveils how he finds and holds onto hope in…
Can AI create art? And is that the question we ought to be asking? On this episode of Rewrite Radio, author and filmmaker Laleh Khadivi urges listeners to remember, in an age of increasing artistic blurriness, the necessity of the individual human being’s creativity. She links the creative process to prayer and asks, if AI is already creating and praying, must the human still too? Theme music is…
In this episode, Dr. Sabrina Lee sits down with acclaimed novelist Peter Ho Davies for a wide-ranging conversation about craft, identity, and the stories that shape us. Together they explore several of his books, diving into themes of shame, race, joke-telling, and what it means to write from the in-between spaces of a biracial identity. With characteristic insight and generosity, Davies reflects…
This week on Rewrite Radio, poet and essayist Christian Wiman explores what it means to stay spiritually alert in a world shadowed by loneliness and lit by sudden joy. Drawing on poems by Wallace Stevens, Anne Carson, and his own collections—including Zero at the Bone—Wiman reflects on beauty as a form of justice, on grief as grace, and on the mysterious ways poetry calls us to pay attention.…
Situating herself in the contexts of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Ukrainian diaspora, Sonya Bilocerkowycz presents the roles and responsibilities of the reader, writer and artist in wartime. Bilocerkowycz emphasises the power writers have in influencing memory and narrative through their work in such times, and calls for the writer not only to prepare, learn, and inform, but to also use art to…
Both mothers of disabled children, authors Amy Julia Becker and Hilary Yancey discuss their experiences raising kids while navigating questions of identity and community. Amy Julia Becker helps people reimagine the good life through her writing and speaking on disability, faith, and culture. She is the author of To Be Made Well , White Picket Fences , Small Talk , and A Good and Perfect Gift and…
What's next in our fight for racial justice? Interviewed by Craig Mattson, author and scholar Jemar Tisby (@jemartisby) discusses his helpful framework for justice efforts—the lenses of awareness, relationship, and commitment. He tackles how to apply these concepts to our day-to-day life with examples, humor, and most of all authenticity. A devout Christian, Tisby offers a valuable perspective on…
