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Rewrite Radio is the podcast of the Festival of Faith & Writing (#FFWgr), a biennial celebration of literature and belief in Grand Rapids, MI. Festival is the flagship initiative of the Calv...

On this episode of Rewrite Radio , Anne Bogel, Byron Borger, and Karen Swallow Prior join Jennifer Holberg to explore how reading shapes emp...

“Enneagram godmother” Suzanne Stabile joins poet and pastor Sam Gutierrez at the 2024 Festival of Faith & Writing for a wide-ranging convers...

In this episode of Rewrite Radio , journalist and author Jim Dahlman reflects on the perceived tension between faith and journalism. Drawing...

What is the source of power in fantasy literature? Listen along as author Matthew Dickerson investigates the magical universes of C.S. Lewis...

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 urge...

In this episode, Dr. Sabrina Lee sits down with acclaimed novelist Peter Ho Davies for a wide-ranging conversation about craft, identity, an...

This week on Rewrite Radio, poet and essayist Christian Wiman explores what it means to stay spiritually alert in a world shadowed by loneli...

Situating herself in the contexts of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Ukrainian diaspora, Sonya Bilocerkowycz presents the roles and responsi...

Both mothers of disabled children, authors Amy Julia Becker and Hilary Yancey discuss their experiences raising kids while navigating questi...

What's next in our fight for racial justice? Interviewed by Craig Mattson, author and scholar Jemar Tisby (@jemartisby) discusses his helpfu...

This week on Rewrite Radio , author and scholar Karen Swallow Prior reflects on the power of imagination—not just as an individual gift, but...

What happens when old models of power no longer serve us? In this episode of Rewrite Radio , Rabbi Elan Babchuck draws from his book Picking...

In Episode 70 of Rewrite Radio , acclaimed author M.T. Anderson explores the sacred and the strange through riveting tales of stolen religio...

On this episode of Rewrite Radio , Rachel Pieh Jones joins us to explore how writing cultivates the humility, curiosity, and delight necessa...

In Episode #68 of Rewrite Radio , Rebecca Sheir shares how folktales entertain, inspire, and unite us in this noisy, high-tech world, and ac...

In Episode #67 of Rewrite Radio , Virginia Stem Owens muses on the difficulties, disappointments, and goodness of real communities. She enco...

In Rewrite Radio Episode #66, Thomas Lynch discusses faith, poetry, and their transformative powers. He asks us to see others as pilgrims on...

In episode #65 of Rewrite Radio , Newbery Medal winner Clare Vanderpool shares how stories transform us and how to maintain our most honest...

In episode #64 of Rewrite Radio , Jennifer Trafton teaches her listeners and students that play is at the heart of creativity. She draws on...

In episode #63 of Rewrite Radio , Sefi Atta and Diane Glancy offer their own thoughts on writing across the borders of religion, culture, la...

In episode #62 of Rewrite Radio , Jeff Zentner tells how he invited his characters to live inside his head for months in order to let them t...

In Rewrite Radio episode #61, Brady Udall offers his thoughts on teaching how to write a novel as opposed to short story or poetry. He disti...

In Rewrite Radio episode #60, Dr. Anbara Salam teaches us more about the human interest in cults, how they are represented, and how they rev...

In episode #59 of Rewrite Radio , author and minister Gloria Pinkney retells stories of how God answered her prayers through a reoccurring b...

In episode #58 of Rewrite Radio , Mitali Perkins offers five truths about fiction. Listen as she thinks of stories as windows and mirrors th...

In episode #57 of Rewrite Radio , Helena María Viramontes shares her thoughts on prayer, compassion, and love to form a deeper connection wi...

In Rewrite Radio episode #56, Doris Betts reads from her novel, Souls Raised from the Dead, at the 1994 Festival of Faith & Writing. This pa...

In Rewrite Radio Episode #55, writer, speaker, and traveler Daniel Taylor discusses the healing power of stories and the way stories make us...

In Rewrite Radio Episode #54, journalist Emma Green opens up her reporter’s notebook from her time spent living in Jerusalem, looking at the...

In Rewrite Radio Episode #53, Luis Alberto Urrea shares his journey as a faithful writer—from a Tijuana garbage dump to Devil’s Highway. The...

In Rewrite Radio Episode #52, Eugene Peterson and Scott Hoezee discuss teaching, preaching, and conversation at the 2010 Festival of Faith &...

In Rewrite Radio Episode #51, National Book Award winner Carlos Eire muses on the ethics of false memory, the power of images, and the story...

In Rewrite Radio Episode #50, Jen Hatmaker and Jennifer Holberg discuss the truths that humor conveys, the need for good friends, and the pr...

In Rewrite Radio Episode #49, writer Lee Smith talks about and reads from her novel Saving Grace. Smith lets us into the stories behind her...

In Rewrite Radio Episode #48, Walter Wangerin, Jr. begins his Festival talk by comparing hard rain on a roof to the sound of applause and pr...

In Rewrite Radio Episode #47, CCFW co-director Jennifer Holberg interviews some who have been there since the beginning of Festival: Henry J...

Episode 46 of Rewrite Radio features a collection of excerpts from our second season of the podcast, curated and edited together by CCFW med...

On this episode of Rewrite Radio, we go back to the first night of Festival 1998 and Nobel-prize-winning writer Elie Wiesel, who offers powe...

Today on Rewrite Radio, we bring you Nikki Grimes, speaking at Festival 2018 about the potential story and poetry have to teach us empathy....

Today’s episode, a recording from the very first Festival in 1990 and it features Will Campbell. Campbell, a Baptist minister, is perhaps be...

In this session of Rewrite Radio, we listen back to a conversation with writer Yann Martel from Festival 2008. Interviewed by Otto Selles, a...

Marilynne Robinson is the author of four novels: Housekeeping, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for the best first novel publish...

On today’s episode of Rewrite Radio: working in the television and movie industry, Abigail Disney and Dorothy Fortenberry are involved in ma...

In this episode of Rewrite Radio, we bring you a session from Festival 2004. Listen in as two poets—Li-Young Lee and Nick Samaras—define the...

On this Rewrite Radio: Calvin College chaplain, Mary Hulst--first woman ordained in the Christian Reformed Church in the US--interviews Rabb...

On this episode of Rewrite Radio: Scott Hoezee, a noted preacher himself and the director of the Center for Excellence in Preaching at Calvi...

On today’s Rewrite Radio, independent scholar Sarina Gruver Moore talks with author Afaa Michael Weaver about how his journey took him from...

On today’s episode, a look back to 2004 when the 2018 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Jacqueline Woodson, visited the Fes...

Today’s episode of Rewrite Radio features a conversation between the writers April Ayers Lawson and Jamie Quatro, hosted by Amy Frykholm. Ti...

On today’s Rewrite Radio, Kathleen Dean Moore, a philosopher and nature writer, proposes that the art of spiritual nature writing is to expl...