{"id":839,"date":"2009-07-24T21:33:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T21:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2009\/07\/sacred-and-mundane-nominated-for-national-book-award.html"},"modified":"2009-07-24T21:33:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T21:33:32","slug":"sacred-and-mundane-nominated-for-national-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2009\/07\/sacred-and-mundane-nominated-for-national-book-award.html","title":{"rendered":"Sacred and Mundane Nominated for National Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/010_7A.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"010_7A.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/010_7A-thumb-500x750-6589.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>My small book of poetry, largely written this year whilst on sabbatical in Vermont has been nominated for a national book award!<font><font><font size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Each year the Conference on<br \/>\nChristianity and Literature (CCL) offers a<br \/>\nBook-of-the-Year Citation to the author and publisher of the work that has<br \/>\n&#8220;contributed most to the dialogue between literature and the Christian<br \/>\nfaith.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/font>&nbsp; We will see what we will see.&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My small book of poetry, largely written this year whilst on sabbatical in Vermont has been nominated for a national book award! 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