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[PCUSANEWS] Writers Guild honors religion writer


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Date 29 May 2003 22:03:45 -0400

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Writers Guild honors religion writer
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Writers Guild honors religion writer

Tammeus says Christian writers are 'exegetes of God's creation'

by Jerry L. Van Marter

DENVER, May 29 - Christian writers are called to be "exegetes of God's
creation," Kansas City Star columnist and author Bill Tammeus told the
Presbyterian Writers Guild Thursday as he received the organization's 2003
David Steele Distinguished Writer Award.

	Tammeus, a lifelong Presbyterian, said, "The call of the writer is to
be an exegete of the world, to find the meaning in those people and events
around us, and then to give it away."

	Tammeus has done that for more than 25 years as a newspaper religion
reporter and columnist, and, more recently, as author of Eyes to See and Ears
to Hear: Writing that Offers the Gift of Meaning.

	First and foremost, he said, writers have to "pay attention and then
hold what they have noticed up to the light, to illuminate the meaning of it
and draw the meaning out of it" so that readers can gain understanding and
find their way.

	Doing that is "a daunting task  while we are trying to find our own
way," said Tammeus, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for his reporting about
a hotel-skywalk collapse in Kansas City. 

	"It would be easier with simple answers, but life's not like that,"
he said. That's why our exegetical efforts are so important."

	During its annual Assembly luncheon, the Guild also presented its Jim
Angell Award - for the best first book of 2002 by a Presbyterian - to Carol
J. Morrison, a pastor's spouse in North Bend, WA. Her book, Catching On: Love
With an Avid Fly Fisher, was described by one reviewer as "a must for every
woman who's ever rolled over in a warm bed at 5 a.m. and realized she's been
abandoned for a cold trout stream."

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