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