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While Most People Talk About Rob Bell, I Actually Talked To Him

By deannelson on May 27, 2011

Bell was at our Writer’s Symposium in February, just before his Love Wins book came out and just before Time Magazine put his book on the cover, and the national talk shows interviewed him, and…
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The Kids Are All Right

By deannelson on January 6, 2011

No, this isn’t a movie review. It’s my sentiment after my wife, daughter and I visited our son and his new wife Amy in their own habitat in Guatemala over Christmas. Blake and Amy got…
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Waiting for Guggenheim

By deannelson on October 15, 2010

I have to confess that the real reason I wanted to interview Davis Guggenheim was not because I thought his new documentary Waiting for ‘Superman’ was superb. Actually I DID think it was superb. Nor…
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So This is What a Birthday Party for Intellectuals Looks Like

By deannelson on July 16, 2010

Recently I attended a conference at Oxford University called God and Physics. More than 100 scientists, philosophers, theologians and others gathered for a few days of lecture and discussion on topics raised in the writings…
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My One Shot at Being a Commencement Speaker

By deannelson on June 7, 2010

In a moment of either weakness or desperation — maybe both — the president of the university where I teach asked me to be the 2010 commencement speaker. Not at another school, mind you, but…
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You Gotta Love It When A Reviewer Likens Your Book to a Coen Brothers Movie

By deannelson on May 10, 2010

That’s what this reviewer did in the prominent magazine Books and Culture. She said that if only the modern day Job character in the movie A Serious Man had read my book, he wouldn’t have…
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Recent Interview with Kathleen Norris

By deannelson on April 27, 2010

Kathleen was in San Diego for our Writer’s Symposium by the Sea to talk about writing, and her book Acedia and Me.

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A Reading and Discussion at A Literary Tea…

By deannelson on April 27, 2010

My department at Point Loma Nazarene University asked me to give a reading and discuss my book, God Hides in Plain Sight. We talked about publishing, rejection, strange neighbors and what goes into writing a…
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Competing With the Pope, While a Priest Says I’ve Written a Masterpiece

By deannelson on April 21, 2010

So ForeWord magazine has nominated God Hides in Plain Sight as a finalist in the religion category for Book of the Year! If you look at the list of other finalists here, note that I’m…
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What the Modern Prophets (and a Student) Taught Me

By deannelson on April 7, 2010

We just finished an amazing week of thinking and discussing the role of writing, especially its prophetic role in our culture. Our annual Writer’s Symposium By The Sea (can you believe we’ve been doing this…
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