Well this was a lovely surprise! The other day I walked into a coffee shop and who should I see reading my new book together but Rob Bell and John Piper! So I turned to John and wryly said, “Whatever happened to ‘Farewell Rob Bell?’” As they both chuckled I snapped this picture. And that’s […]
Archives for July 2017
Saved from Birth?
Nine days ago I launched a website, confusedaboutgrace.com to provide a complement to my new book What’s so Confusing About Grace? I will be posting new articles at a weekly basis at the blog, and the second article has just been posted. It’s titled “Saved from Birth?“
For the umpteenth time, certainty is not the problem
Epistemic humility is popular theses days. All things considered, that’s a good thing: it’s good to be epistemically humble. That forces you to keep in mind that you don’t know everything and to contemplate the fact that you could be wrong. On the downside, many people seem to believe that being epistemically humble entails taking […]
A Review of The Moral Arc Part 3: From Absurdities to Atrocities
For Part 2 of this review click here. Early on in The Moral Arc Michael Shermer quotes Voltaire: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” (7) It’s clear that Shermer likes this quote because he returns to it on several occasions. At one point he offers a different translation: “Truly, whoever […]
The Kindle Version of What’s So Confusing About Grace? is Now Available
Wow, my shortest post ever. Please see the title for more information.
The First Review for What’s So Confusing About Grace?
One of the regular readers of my blog, David, just posted the first review of What’s So Confusing About Grace? at Amazon.com. It’s a very fine review and you can read it here. So read the review and then get the book that everyone David is talking about! 🙂
Two Days of Right Wing Talk Radio and I’m Depressed
I just got back from a visit with family in Colorado. So how do you pass the time during a three day drive home? Simple: American talk radio: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Michael Medved. All told I digested about ten hours of populist, right wing analysis. Wow, is that depressing: incessant staccato chatter […]
My New Book is now Available in Canada
My new book What’s So Confusing About Grace? is now available to order at Amazon.ca. What is more, the Look Inside feature on Amazon is now activated so you can check out the beginning of the book. The Kindle version should be available in a couple weeks. I’ve written eleven books now and I’ve never had more […]
What’s So Confusing About Grace? The Endorsements
Do I agree with everything Randal Rauser says and with every way he put things? I do not. Do I think that what he says and how he says it is so sensible and so helpful that I am going to buy copies of this book to give to relatives, friends, students—even my own sons? […]
Launching My New Website ConfusedAboutGrace.Com
I have launched a new website to complement my book What’s So Confusing About Grace? Titled confusedaboutgrace.com it features some information on the book including a downloadable 10 page excerpt. The new website also includes a blog in which I will be posting some reflections to accompany the book. My first entry to the blog is […]
What’s So Confusing About Grace? My New Book has Arrived!
Well, it’s mostly arrived. Print copies are now available to order on Amazon.com. The Kindle version will be available in a week or so. And it should be available at Amazon.ca not long after that. This is the most personal book I’ve ever written, three hundred pages chronicling my forty year theological journey in attempting […]
A Review of The Moral Arc Part 2: Reason as Rhetoric
For Part 1 of this review click here. Imagine that you’re over at your friend Mike’s house for dinner when he pulls out a Monopoly box and invites you to a game. “But before we get started,” he says, “the rules are that I get $500 every time I pass go and you don’t get […]
This is how strange a free market approach to healthcare looks to a Canadian like me
Imagine a world in which all citizens were not extended protection by the police. Instead, the government aimed to offer people various tax credits and incentives to buy police protection from private security firms. And as a result, some people were protected by powerful armed militias, others had spotty protection from ill-equipped security guards, and […]
A Review of The Moral Arc Part 1: Abortion
Michael Shermer. The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom. New York: Henry Holt, 2015. 543 pp. As I read it, Michael Shermer’s 2015 book The Moral Arc is a sweeping 500 page apologetic for two theses: the optimism thesis (the world is getting better); and the secular thesis (that improvement […]
