Culturally Relevant Characters

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Comment by Lisa Lickel on November 4, 2009 at 8:04am

How about pretty frank sensuality/sexuality - no, not the sweet Julie Lessman married type, but the type found by people in today's world who need to be redeemed? I'm reading a book from the Urban Christian imprint. I gave it a pretty good review, but I'm still uncomfortable about it.

Comment by Shawna Williams on August 10, 2009 at 7:40pm

Just wanted to say that--for some reason--my husband and I were discussing the origins the F word recently, and discovered that it's usage in the English language dates all the way back to the fifteen hundreds. Several other European cultures also contain a similar words with a similar meaning. I could list them, but....

Comment by Nike Chillemi on June 15, 2009 at 2:58pm

Ashley, I totally agree w/you. Whatever is true to the character. :)

Comment by Ashley Ludwig on May 21, 2009 at 3:08pm

F-bomb
Freakin'
Friggin'
H-e-double-hockey-sticks
curse
swore under his/her breath
...?

Comment by Garry R. Kennedy on May 21, 2009 at 2:52pm

I agree.

Comment by Ashley Ludwig on May 21, 2009 at 1:44pm

Nike - well said. We are supposed to be in command of the English language, after all!

Comment by Nike Chillemi on May 21, 2009 at 1:35pm

Garry, I'd never suggest that a Christian author use the "F" word. However, you are not alone in using the "F" word. I know Christian women who use it. Christian women in leadership positions.

What I suggest is that we acknowlege this in our writing. It would be so cool for a teenage character to say of the women's ministry leader, "Wow, can you believe she just dropped an F bomb."

Comment by Elizabeth Bennet on April 7, 2009 at 3:18pm

Yeah, I totally agree with that!!!!!!!

Comment by Garry R. Kennedy on April 7, 2009 at 3:15pm

I still unfortunately occasionally still use the F word in my real life. Why? Because I'm still a work in progress and at times a very poor example to others, and I'm not proud of it. However, as a Christian writer I believe it should be one of our responsibilities to set the bar higher rather than lower it to meet the world's standard. The world doesn't expect to hear such language in a Christian novel. They expect better. We don't need to use the devil's language to make the Lord's point.

Comment by Elizabeth Bennet on February 28, 2009 at 12:51pm

I found myself a loop whole! So no profanity actually gets in there.

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