{"id":609083,"date":"2026-08-19T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/story\/609083\/katherine-scherer-and-eileen-bodohs-blessings-abound-awaken-to-the-gifts-at-hand-wins-best-treatment-of-faith-booky.html"},"modified":"2026-08-19T04:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:00:39","slug":"katherine-scherer-and-eileen-bodohs-blessings-abound-awaken-to-the-gifts-at-hand-wins-best-treatment-of-faith-booky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/story\/609083\/katherine-scherer-and-eileen-bodohs-blessings-abound-awaken-to-the-gifts-at-hand-wins-best-treatment-of-faith-booky.html","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Scherer and Eileen Bodoh&#8217;s &#8220;Blessings Abound: Awaken To The Gifts At Hand&#8221; Wins Best Treatment of Faith Booky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Austin, TX &#8211; August 18th, 2026 &#8211;<\/strong> BookyAwards, the AI-judged book awards programme operated by Archieboy Holdings, LLC, today announced that &#8220;Blessings Abound: Awaken to the Gifts at Hand&#8221; by Katherine Scherer and Eileen Bodoh has won the Best Treatment of Faith Booky. The book earned its highest marks on the Theme &amp; Substance axis, scoring 78\/100.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;This is a book that wants to help readers notice grace in unassumed places &mdash; not just in obvious spiritual peak-experiences but in aspects of our lives we may think of as painful or trite,&#8221; said judge Brooke Hayes. &#8220;The syncretic reach &mdash; Native American lore alongside the Christian Bible, Wordsworth and Thoreau and Whitman and Tagore in conversation with scripture &mdash; signals a book that knows its genre and is executing its core promise: widen the reader&#8217;s sense of the sacred using trusted, varied voices as scaffolding. The line &#8216;Move away from the mundane if only for a few moments&#8217; is a modest, honest promise &mdash; it offers a pause, not a program. The intentions declared here are coherent, warm, and built for a specific reader &mdash; someone tired, someone looking for reasons to notice their life again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;Blessings Abound: Awaken to the Gifts at Hand&#8221; is an inspirational devotional that draws together scripture, Native American lore, and the writings of Wordsworth, Thoreau, Whitman, and Tagore to help readers rediscover grace in the everyday textures of their lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Katherine Scherer and Eileen Bodoh are the co-authors of &#8220;Blessings Abound: Awaken to the Gifts at Hand,&#8221; a collaborative work of devotional and inspirational writing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">BookyAwards is an AI-judged book awards programme operated by Archieboy Holdings, LLC. Each submitted book is evaluated using roughly its opening three chapters by a specialist AI judge against a published 10-axis rubric. Books that meet the threshold receive a category-specific Booky; books that don&#8217;t are refunded in full. Learn more at bookyawards.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Award page: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookyawards.com\/winners\/blessings-abound-awaken-to-the-gifts-at-hand-katherine-scher-783\">https:\/\/www.bookyawards.com\/winners\/blessings-abound-awaken-to-the-gifts-at-hand-katherine-scher-783<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>About The Bookey Awards <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Booky Awards: Book awards where every winner gets a category that actually fits their book. Every award is scored across all 10 craft axes:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Prose and Style<\/li>\n<li>Characterization<\/li>\n<li>Dialogue<\/li>\n<li>Plot and Structure<\/li>\n<li>World-building<\/li>\n<li>Originality<\/li>\n<li>Emotional Resonance<\/li>\n<li>Theme and Substance<\/li>\n<li>Genre Execution<\/li>\n<li>Marketability and Hook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Bookey Awards are a category-specific book award program designed to recognize published works that meet high craft standards in their respective genres. They are notable for their transparency, consistency, and focus on genuine merit with a process that prioritizes honesty over prestige, making them a unique alternative to traditional literary prizes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Archieboy Holdings, LLC is the parent company behind a set of digital business websites and software projects. Their strongest current footprint is in publishing-related tools and services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caps\"><span style='font-size:18px !important'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> Booky Awards<br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Eileen Bodoh<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.universalpressrelease.com\/?pr=katherine-scherer-and-eileen-bodohs-blessings-abound-awaken-to-the-gifts-at-hand-wins-best-treatment-of-faith-booky'>Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookyawards.com\/winners\/blessings-abound-awaken-to-the-gifts-at-hand-katherine-scher-783\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.bookyawards.com\/winners\/blessings-abound-awaken-to-the-gifts-at-hand-katherine-scher-783<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getnews.info\/press_stat.php?pr=katherine-scherer-and-eileen-bodohs-blessings-abound-awaken-to-the-gifts-at-hand-wins-best-treatment-of-faith-booky\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin, TX &#8211; August 18th, 2026 &#8211; BookyAwards, the AI-judged book awards programme operated by Archieboy Holdings, LLC, today announced that &#8220;Blessings Abound: Awaken to the Gifts at Hand&#8221; by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}