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Justin Wiggins

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in Black Mountain, North Carolina , The United States

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Justin Wiggins is an author who works and lives in the primitive, majestic, beautiful mountains of North Carolina. He graduated with his Bachelor's in English Literature, with a focus on C.S. Lewis studies, from Montreat College in May 2018. His first book was Surprised by Agape, published by Grant Hudson of Clarendon House Publications. His second book, Surprised By Myth, was co-written with Grant Hudson and published in 2021. His most recent books, Marty & Irene, Tír na nÓg, Celtic Twilight, Celtic Song, Ragnarok, Celtic Dawn, Sacred Space, co-written with Matthew Huff, and Avalon, were all published by Steve Cawte of Impspired. Artists, Myth & Hope was also published by Clarendon House Publications in 2024.

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Artists, Myth & Hope has been published by Grant Hudson of Clarendon House Publications!

Artists, Myth & Hope has been officially published by Grant Hudson of Clarendon House Publications! This is my tenth book, it is dedicated to J. R.R. Tolkien, and I am thankful for the endorsement from Dr. Don King and Dr. Steven Beebe.

I look forward to holding a physical copy in my hands, am currently planning a book signing event, and getting in some copies at the local Barnes & Noble. Writing Read more of this blog post »

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	Surprised by Myth: A Collection of Essays on the Inklings and Their Friends by Justin Wiggins (Goodreads Author), Grant P. Hudson (Goodreads Author) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Good Poems

by Garrison Keillor

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Telling Secrets

by Frederick Buechner

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Justin Wiggins said: " I think it was very brave of Frederick Buechner to write about the deep wound his father’s suicide left on him and his mother, and how he was able to find healing and hope in his life through the power of literature and art, and the agape love of Chr I think it was very brave of Frederick Buechner to write about the deep wound his father’s suicide left on him and his mother, and how he was able to find healing and hope in his life through the power of literature and art, and the agape love of Christ. He writes about faith in a way for people of all worldviews, in contrast to much of the cheesy, repetitive, and insincere propaganda things out there which does not correlate to daily life.
This book also explores the horrific experience Buechner had of watching his daughter battle anorexia, and how he learned that as much as he wanted to, he could not save her, but she had to be willing to find healing and hope on her own, which she did, and it changed her life for the better. This book is good for anyone who has experienced great loss and painful seasons of grief, because this book is a great affirmation of hope. I read it at just the right time in my life when I needed too. I like the references Buechner’s makes to J.R.R.Tolkien, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton and C.S.Lewis. These quotes below are my favorite from the book,

“If writers write not just with paper and ink or a word processor but with their own life's blood, then I think something like this is perhaps always the case. A book you write out of the depths of who you are, like a dream you dream out of those same depths, is entirely your own creation. All the words your characters speak are words that you alone have put into their mouths, just as every situation they become involved in is one that you alone have concocted for them. But it seems to me that nonetheless that a book you write, like a dream you dream, can have more healing and truth and wisdom in it at least for yourself than you feel in any way responsible for.”
“My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours… it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us more powerfully and personally."- Frederick Buechner ...more "

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by Jane Austen

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It had been quite a while since I read George MacDonald's Lilith, originally published in 1895. This story by the great Scottish author, MacDonald, inspired by Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology, explores the defeat of cosmic evil and death, the spiri ...more
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“And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all men were hushed. And he sang to them, now in the Elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

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“Words and their meanings have weight in the world of matter, shaping and reshaping realities through a most ancient alchemy.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

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“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

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“It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days – A Spiritual Chronicle of How God Speaks in Everyday Moments from Childhood to Seminary