When Faith and Doubt Go Hand in Hand

About this episode

The episode explores the intersection of faith and doubt in the writing process with guest Callie Feyen.

In today's episode, we're taking a slight detour from friendship and hospitality to dive into the writing process with our resident "Writing Yoda" — Callie Feyen. How does doubt fuel our writing? How do we keep a posture of curiosity while witnessing to the world? What might happen to our art if we viewed creativity as part of our inheritance? We hope this conversation gives you a peek into the behind-the-scenes writing process of You're In Good Company , and perhaps even inspires you to write a story yourself (no happy ending required). This show is brought to you ad-free by our generous Substack community. If you'd like to support the work we do for as little as $3/month, head to coffeeandcrumbs.substack.com to join us (and get bonus episodes!). For show notes, go to coffeeandcrumbs.net/podcast . Callie's wisdom influences our writing; listen to this bonus episode to hear how else we're Influenced . For more encouragement in your motherhood journey, check out the stories at Coffee + Crumbs . Show notes: Pre-order You're In Good Company Callie's latest book: When We Swung from Church Bells Callie on Substack Callie on Instagram Callie's Coffee + Crumbs essays Callie's website…

People in this episode

Hosts: Katie Blackburn, Ashlee Gadd

Guest: Callie Feyen

Topics covered

• faith
• doubt
• writing process
• creativity
• motherhood
• inspiration

Keywords

• faith
• doubt
• writing
• creativity
• motherhood
• inspiration
• podcast

Sponsors

Coffee + Crumbs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Coffee + Crumbs, Substack, Instagram

Books & works: You're In Good Company, When We Swung from Church Bells

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