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Feeling Down? Need Encouragement?
If you are feeling down and need encouragement, you will relate to Mara in Forgotten Followers from Broken to Bold. Walk with Mara and you m

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 11, 20223 min read
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Ready to Launch! Forgotten Followers from Broken to Bold
Forgotten Followers novel prepares to launch with Testimonial, Advance Reader Copy, and Author Interview

Elaine R Kelly
Aug 3, 20225 min read
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The Apostle's Sister: Book Review
The Apostle's Sister is a fictonal story of Aya, how she lived in the shadow of her brother Apostle Paul and was sidelined as a female.

Elaine R Kelly
Jun 9, 20224 min read
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6 Powerful Features of Parables
The features of parables meant that Jesus used them to demonstrate ideas; like a parable, fiction is a powerful, relatable story

Elaine R Kelly
May 14, 20225 min read
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How is Canada's Black History Record?
Let's not get smug. Canada's Black History shows indentured servitude, prejudice, and discriminatory immigration, education and civil rights.

Elaine R Kelly
Apr 27, 20227 min read
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How is Canada's Record on Racism?
Canada has a record of racism: from the expulsion of Acadians, Francophone rights, Indigenous and Metis peoples, Japanese internment

Elaine R Kelly
Apr 27, 202211 min read
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Impostor! When Racism Means Hiding Who You Really Are
What is Impostor Syndrome? It can mean hiding who you really are because of racism around you. Imagine Racial Impostor Syndrome in Jesus's day.

Elaine R Kelly
Apr 24, 20225 min read
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Do the Gospels conflict in the Timing of the Last Supper?
While the church celebrates The Last Supper on a Thursday, Gospel accounts could show it on a Wednesday!

Elaine R Kelly
Apr 12, 20226 min read
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Sequence of Resurrection Appearances
Chart showing sequence of resurrection appearances by various different passages. When are women included? excluded?

Elaine R Kelly
Apr 7, 202211 min read
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Were Women at the Last Supper?
A look at art depicting the Last Supper, its purpose and its impact on our view of women and men with Jesus at the Last Supper.

Elaine R Kelly
Apr 2, 20228 min read
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Jesus called the Marginalized as Disciples: The Twin, the Terrorist, and the Tax Collector
Jesus chose marginalized people as Disciples

Elaine R Kelly
Mar 16, 20224 min read
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Yes, You Can Be a Mother and an Egalitarian Christian
A mother and an Egalitarian Christian; despite what Complementarians say, motherhood is not every woman's highest Calling

Elaine R Kelly
Jan 10, 20228 min read
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Is your Novel Biblical?
How to confirm if a biblical fiction is in fact consistent with the Bible when it is not consistent with patriarchal church teaching.

Elaine R Kelly
Dec 9, 20214 min read
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What do you believe, and What do those hashtags mean?
Elaine R Kelly, Author writes to empower women as equals and affirming LGBT: what does she believe?

Elaine R Kelly
Nov 29, 20218 min read
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Social Media update
It turns out that building your platform is almost as important and time consuming as writing your novel. While I enjoy writing and...

Elaine R Kelly
Nov 3, 20212 min read
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Book Review: Deafening
Even if you cannot hear with your ears, you can hear the message of hope in the face of trials! The sounds of war can be deafening, but...

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 10, 20212 min read
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More Editing Progress!
How to make editing progress in three ways: structural editing, copy editing, and proofreading.

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 8, 20215 min read
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The Power of Story-telling
In my new life as an author, I am very focused on the rule to "Show, Don't Tell". Other books have been written explaining the rationale...

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 8, 20211 min read
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Can Lay Women Preach?
A personal example of an unordained laywoman preaching

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 6, 20213 min read
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Follow the Money! Where did women get funds to support Jesus?
The Bible tells us that women supported Jesus from their personal financial means. Let's look at ancient inheritance and property...

Elaine R Kelly
Sep 20, 20214 min read
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Book Review: The Book of Rachael; sister of Jesus; wife of Judas Iscariot
Media Review: I am reflecting on some of the books and media I have reviewed as part of my research into the various views of the life...

Elaine R Kelly
Sep 13, 20212 min read
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