By Eric Thomas Ruthford
Voice From The Ladder
Religious concepts have a funny way of becoming physical and real at Camp St. Innocent, an Orthodox Christian summer camp. The impossible obstacle course is called the Hillside of Divine Ascent and each obstacle is named after a spiritual temptation. When an autistic camper cracks the code of how to get past them, the excitement of figuring it out first is too much for him. The ensuing outburst means he has to be separated from the group, but his counselor, Laura, is determined to calm him down, keep him in camp, and interpret the secret he’s trying to tell.
Author and speaker
Eric Thomas Ruthford
I live near Seattle, Wash., and have had a number of careers: newspaper reporter, Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine, homeless shelter financial manager, non-fiction writer, preemie-parent advocate and fiction writer. These past few years I’ve been a stay-at-home Dad, which has given me the opportunity to write the Camp St. Innocent series, several YA novels about a summer camp. When I’m not writing, I like bicycling around Washington state and landscape photography.
Me announcing the release of Voice in the Ladder, Book 3 in the series, at a meeting of the Northwest Christian Writers’ Association.
I present a game of matching characters and their flaws for an audience at church.
Launch of A Voice is Born, the second book in my series. Press the cc button for the captions.
Other Writing
My first book
You love church but you wish there was someone your age in church you could love. This is a non-fiction collection of things you might try while you’re waiting to meet your special someone. Or, it might be just worth a few laughs.
Preemie-parent writing
In 2012, my wife and I had a baby who broke all sorts of rules from the get-go, like surviving after being born in the 22nd week of gestation. The attending physician said our son was below the threshold for what the hospital could try to save. We had some strong opinions about this and wrote about it.
Church humor blog, thedailypodvig.com
Here you can find fictional “news” stories to fit every awkward moment there is at coffee hour, liturgy or Sunday school. The characters in the stories are Eastern Orthodox Christians, but I hope there’s a laugh or two in there for everyone else.
My Writing Blog
Follow Along
Premature babies and the 22-week divide
Non-fiction time: This article in the Wall Street Journal is a very personal topic for us as we had to fight this exact fight to get treatment for our micropreemie, born at 22 weeks and 6 days of gestation in 2012. The hospital at first said it could not provide care...
Book Review: Sharing Hunter, by Julie Glover
There is this phrase in the world of girls: "He's my boyfriend; he just doesn't know it yet." It means stay away from him. It means that girls have to be very careful when telling her best friends they have crushes because if both of them have the same crush, there...
Book Review: Where The Wings Rise
Time to promote a neighbor book on the YA-Christian contemporary shelf. “Where the Wings Rise” has just been released. This is the second book in the “Climbing Higher Series” by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm. It’s an amazing combination of faith and recovery and you should check...
