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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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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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Is Confession Strange?

By deannelson on March 5, 2010

The Washington Times newspaper did a column recently on my book, God Hides in Plain Sight. The columnist focused on some interesting aspects of the book that others have not, and named some former famous…
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Garrison Keillor: Alive and Well and Full of Hope

By deannelson on March 5, 2010

As a transplanted Minnesotan, I have been listening to Garrison Keillor for a long time. Even while living in Minnesota I listened to his radio program, A Prairie Home Companion. I remember him in the…
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Inside the Cathedrals in Cambridge, It’s Bach and Handel; Outside it’s Indians and Robots

By deannelson on December 11, 2009

So, I’m back in Cambridge, England to do more work on my faith/science book that focuses on the physicist/priest John Polkinghorne. On every street there is a cathedral announcing a Christmas concert — choirs, bells,…
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Risen Magazine Features God Hides in Plain Sight

By deannelson on December 4, 2009

Risen Magazine is one of the most interesting magazines I’ve come across. I was first turned onto it with their cover story on Alice Cooper. Then on Carlos Santana. Every issue had an interview that…
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A Different Way to Think About Christmas Gifts, and Another View of God Hides in Plain Sight

By deannelson on December 4, 2009

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