by Vella Karman | Mar 25, 2026 | Author News, Soli Deo Gloria
In the last few weeks, three meteors have landed in the US. One of them landed in Ohio, just a few hours from my house. And it’s got me thinking about the end of the world. Wait, the end of the world? I grew up believing that the end times might come while I was...
by Vella Karman | Mar 18, 2026 | BOOKS, Clean fiction, Filling your life with LIGHT
Sometimes it’s just too lighthearted. If you hand me a book without any conflict in it, I’m not sure you can even classify it as a “book.” Conflict is one of the core elements of story. I’m a clean fiction author. I write clean fiction....
by Vella Karman | Mar 11, 2026 | Clean fiction, Filling your life with LIGHT
Fictional battles between light and darkness mirror the story of the world. Any good Christian can tell you that. But there’s something vital about the way the Bible handles darkness that I don’t see in much clean fiction. You can practically tell the entire gospel...
by Vella Karman | Feb 18, 2026 | Filling your life with LIGHT, Soli Deo Gloria
I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this, but when I was a kid, I used to lie awake at night and miss my mom. Not just a little, or when she was out of town, either. I would wake up at three a.m. with this powerful longing. It took my breath away, and...
by Vella Karman | Feb 11, 2026 | Filling your life with LIGHT, Soli Deo Gloria
I listened to a sermon by Francis Chan this week. He talked about this verse in 1 Thessalonians that I hadn’t really thought about before. “aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you. In this...
