Magazines 2021 Jul - Aug Faith Today writers named for awards - 10 are shortlisted and 5 win
Faith Today writers named for awards - 10 are shortlisted and 5 win
Congratulations to all the writers whose work was named in The Word Awards this year. Ten from Faith Today were shortlisted. UPDATE: Five were announced as winners Sept. 25.
[Note: we revised this post Sept. 28, 2021 to show the winners.]
Among those in the running are:
- Meagan Gillmore, Dear Church, about living on $2,000/month or less (blog post, Fieguth social justice award) - WINNER FOR BLOG POST
- Carolyn Arends, Go With God (column series) - WINNER
- David Guretzki, Cross Connections (column series)
- Bruce Clemenger, A matter of equal protection: Advocating for our neighbours with disabilities (single column, Fieguth social justice award)
- Katharine Hayhoe, Crisis in creation care (long feature, Fieguth social justice award)
- Sherman Lau, with Celina Lam, Joge Lin & Ted Ng, Longing to Belong: How do Christians live out our welcome and inclusion of minorities (news, Harvey/Mackey journalism award, Fieguth social justice award) - WINNER FOR NEWS AND HARVEY/MACKEY
- Larry Worthen, Appointment with God: Walking with my father through the temptation of euthanasia (personal experience, Harvey/Mackey journalism award, Fieguth social justice award)
- Jenna Smith, Death and New Life Among Resurrection People (short feature) - WINNER
- Tim Huff, The Loneliness Vaccine (Harvey/Mackey journalism award, Fieguth social justice award)
- Joel Gordon, From the ground up: On racism and reconciliation thunder (Fieguth social justice award)
See the full list of shortlisted books and articles and the full list of winners at
www.TheWordGuild.com/media. (
Faith Today readers will also recognize familiar names among other winners, such as Carolyn Arends in the songwriting category and Preston Pouteaux in the best book cover category.) The Word Awards is a contest held each year by
The Word Guild, an association of writers and editors in Canada who are Christians.