{"id":460,"date":"2013-10-07T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T09:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2016-01-21T22:34:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T22:34:22","slug":"religion-newswriters-association-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2013\/10\/07\/religion-newswriters-association-book-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion Newswriters Association book award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RNA &#8212; that would be the Religion Newswriters Association, not the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Romantic Novelists&#8217; Association<\/a>, which I&#8217;m sure is also a wonderful organization\u00a0&#8212; recently announced their annual awards, including one for the year&#8217;s best religion books.\u00a0<em>The Aleppo Codex<\/em> picked up second place. It&#8217;s a pleasure to be recognized by pros, and I&#8217;m grateful to the judges for choosing my book.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on a prize from the other RNA. Apparently passionate lust for a manuscript doesn&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>Two books shared first, and both seem very interesting: <em>Distilled Spirits, <\/em>by Don Lattin, which weaves the story of the author&#8217;s own spiritual wanderings with those of three other characters, including Aldous Huxley; and Tanya Luhrmann&#8217;s\u00a0<em>When God Talks Back<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0about evangelical Christians in America.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 25px;\">More on the prize right <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 25px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rna.org\/?page=2013_contest_archive\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 25px;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RNA &#8212; that would be the Religion Newswriters Association, not the Romantic Novelists&#8217; Association, which I&#8217;m sure is also a wonderful organization\u00a0&#8212; recently announced their annual awards, including one for the year&#8217;s best religion books.\u00a0The Aleppo Codex picked up second place. It&#8217;s a pleasure to be recognized by pros, and I&#8217;m grateful to the judges for choosing my book. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}