SPS 244: When Faith Fails: Writing About Your Faith As A Christian or Pastor…with Dominic Done

Self Publishing School: How To Write A Book That Grows Your Impact, Income, And Business

Chandler Bolt, Founder of selfpublishing.com

Courses, How To Publish A Book, Self Publishing, Business, Books, Arts, How To Write A Book, Education, Book Marketing, Traditional Publishing, Book Publishing

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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When doubt creeps into the creases of our faith, it can feel like navigating a labyrinth without a map. Dominic Dohn, founder of Pursuing Faith and author of "When Faith Fails," joins us to light the path through that maze, discussing his deeply personal and scholarly journey from Oxford to the pulpit, and now to the page. We talk about the raw edges of writing authentically on faith, the way our darkest questions can forge the strongest beliefs, and how sharing our own stories can validate t...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Self Publishing School podcast. This is the podcast to listen to if you're an
0:07.7	aspiring writer or an author who wants to be more successful. On this show, you'll learn how to
0:13.1	write and launch a book successfully, all from the top authors and people just like you
0:17.8	who are doing it at the highest level. I'm your host, Chandler Bolt, the founder
0:22.0	of self-publishing school, the author of the book called Published and the CEO of
0:27.5	Selfpublishing.com. For free training on how to publish a book that sells 10,000 copies,
0:32.5	go to self-publishing.com forward slash free training. Hey, Chandler Bolt here and joining me today is Dominic Dohn.
0:41.3	Dominic, he's the founder of pursuing faith and the author of When Faith Fails,
0:46.4	Finding God in the Shadow of Doubt.
0:49.0	He's got a master's degree in theology from the University of Oxford.
0:53.2	If you listen closely, you might hear an English
0:56.8	accent, like just slight traces. But he's been a pastor all over Portland, North Carolina,
1:03.8	Hawaii, a bunch of different places. Today I want to talk about he's successfully published
1:09.2	multiple books. So we're going to go behind the scenes on publishing books about your faith. This will be especially relevant whether you're a Christian,
1:16.7	whether you're a pastor. So from both experiences, publishing books about your faith, how do you do
1:23.6	it successfully? How do you do it well? How do you do it with integrity? And just a bunch of questions around this. We get asked this kind of stuff all the time.
1:31.5	We've got a ton of faith-based authors at sellpublishing.com. So hopefully this will be a good,
1:36.1	both inspiration and kind of a guide map of how he's done it. So Dominic, great to have you here. Welcome. Oh, it's, it's delightful to be with you,
1:45.1	and I'm not sure about the slight English accent, although if I do say the word tomato, that's the one
1:50.5	the one word I ruthlessly hold on to it. If you say what? Tomato. That's about it.
1:59.1	I hear, I heard, you know, there's slight, we'll let the audience be the judge if there's an English accent in there somewhere.
2:06.7	It's like when people ask me if I have a Southern accent, and I'm like, well, it depends on who you ask.
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