I haven’t done any blogging this week because my family and I have been busy moving to our new home. There is still quite a bit of unpacking to do, but the actual moving of stuff from Point A to Point B is just about done, and after spending all day yesterday loading and unloading boxes and furniture, I woke up this morning to discover a message from one of the editors at ChristianWeek to the effect that an article I wrote for them last year won a prize at the Canadian Church Press Awards last night.
The article in question is ‘Scripture on the Silver Screen’, and it came in second in the ‘Non-Fiction Feature’ category. (The top prize went to a Catholic reporter who traveled to Syria to cover the crisis there. Can’t complain about coming in second to that! Indeed, I’m honoured to be in that kind of company.)
It’s kind of funny to look back at my article now, as I wrote it when Exodus and the latest remake of Ben-Hur were still little more than rumours. The films were certainly “in development”, but neither of them had been officially announced yet, nor had any cameras started rolling. (Since then, Exodus has been shot in its entirety.)
This is the first nod I’ve received for my writing since before I went on my writing and blogging hiatus five years ago, so it’s nice to know that I’m “back” now not just as a writer and blogger, but as an award-winning writer and blogger. You can read about my previous awards — for news writing as well as film criticism — here, though it’s sobering to see how many of the articles I linked to aren’t online any more.
In any case, the message I got this morning was a lovely grace note at the end of a hectic, busy, and occasionally depressing week. (I really don’t like moving.)
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