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RonaldClements
Writer and Researcher
Welcome
to my website
I have been writing professionally since 2005 when I
embarked on my first biography - Point Me to the Skies.
However, my first real success goes back to 1988 when I won
a play writing competition for a local radio station and it
began to dawn on me that I could write something
worthwhile. Since then I have written and contributed to a
number of books as author, contributor, editor, ghostwriter
and researcher. In 1988 I also wrote the script for a feature
film, Bedel, set and filmed in Turkey. More recently I have
completed a trilogy of TV documentaries -The Jesus Accounts
(2010), Jesus: Son of God? (2014), and Jesus: Dead and Buried?
(2018). All of these have won awards in their categories at
Christian film festivals in the UK and USA. Oh, and every now
and then I write murder mystery evenings for a local charity.
Actually, if the truth be told, it all began with a dream, but
that’s another story...
Ronald Clements, writer and researcher
Conflict and war
darkened my childhood. The son of
missionary parents, I was raised
within reach of bandits who were
the scourge of the local peasants.
Boyhood was spent beneath the
shadow of Japan’s belligerent
occupation of China. Aged fourteen,
I became a civilian prisoner of war
under the scrutiny of Japanese
guards. Four years later I escaped
this orbit of aggression and went to
Australia. And there I understood
that my life would complete a circle.
I must proclaim reconciliation for the
Japanese; reconciliation with God,
reconciliation with the world they
had devastated so cruelly.
Taken from In Japan the Crickets Cry
the story of Steve Metcalf
And now for
something
completely
different…