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God Hides in Plain Sight

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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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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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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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“One of the Best Pieces of Wisdom You Will Ever Hear”

By deannelson on October 7, 2009

That’s what Scot McKnight said in his Jesus Creed blog on Beliefnet about my chapter on Vocation. McKnight is doing a series based on my new book. Here’s one of his installments: How does our vocation…
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Now Appearing in Donald Miller’s Burnside Writer’s Collective; Announcing the Start of My Million Inches Tour

By deannelson on October 1, 2009

I have been a fan of Donald Miller’s ever since reading Blue Like Jazz. The humor, the depth, the doubt, all drew me into his attempt to live a life that was honest, difficult and…
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