011 The Patriots - Patience Wright

05/06/13 • 11 min

Jack Cavanaugh's The Making of Christian Historical Fiction

In this episode, I describe how, while mining historical research about the Revolutionary War, I struck character gold. I discovered Patience Wright, America’s first sculptress of notoriety.

In this episode, I describe how, while mining historical research about the Revolutionary War, I struck character gold. I discovered Patience Wright, America’s first sculptress of notoriety.

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010 The Making of the Patriots

The Revolutionary War. While we are proud as Christians of the role our faith played in the founding of our country, the decision to take up arms was not an easy one for Christians in 1776. A key question had to be addressed: At what point does a Christian take up arms against his own government?

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012 The Making of The Adversaries

This episode is set during one of the most popular periods for historical fiction, the Civil War. As strange as it sounds, Chapter 15 is special to me because even though it is in Book 4 in the series, it contains the first chapter I wrote as a professional novelist.