After the recent ACFW conference, several writer friends posted “praise reports” about having acquired an agent. For traditionalists like me, acquiring an agent is a big deal. Upon completing my first novel back in ’05 /’06, I immediately set out querying agents far and wide. Now, almost a decade later, things have changed, both for [...]

I’m officially over this idea that Christians need to start conversations, dialog, negotiations with everyone they disagree with. As if talking to someone of another faith persuasion somehow bridges the ideological divide between us. Advocates of such an approach usually appeal for conversation on the basis that it will lead to… understanding civility respect compromise [...]

As much as people seek to discredit the Bible, certain prophecies have a chilling way of staying relevant. One of those is the idea of a one-world government. Simply put, many teachers and students of eschatology describe an end-times scenario in which, amidst global unrest and turmoil, a single ruler (the antichrist) will arise having [...]

In his review of Scot McKnight’s A Long Faithfulness: The Case for Christian Perseverance, Ardel Caneday, professor of New Testament and Greek at the University of Northwestern in St. Paul, Minnesota, concentrates on the linchpin of McKnight’s rejection of Calvinism: the perseverance of the saints. McKnight… challenges God’s sovereignty with regard to salvation—“whether or not [...]

When your motto is “love” and “tolerance,” vitriol is unbecoming. Nevertheless, my progressive friends seem to inch ever closer to the ledge they decry. I mean, how else can you explain the 24/7 policing of Evangelicals? It used to be that the progressive community’s Evangelical bogies received equal insults, er, critique.  But as of late, [...]

A recent review of Laird Barron’s new story collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, highlights a growing subgenre in the ranks of weird fiction: “cosmic horror.” Barron is a rising star in the horror pantheon, as much for his stellar prose as the creeps they evoke. But the Salon reviewer, Adrian Van Young, [...]

I purchased my first digital Bible several years ago. It’s become my default “Sunday Bible” for preaching and study. So I was a little dismayed when the fellas at The Gospel Coalition suggested that pastors should stick to preaching from a physical Bible. The reasons they gave are noble, but debatable. I will agree, however, [...]

I publicly expressed some concerns about the theology of a recently released book. I was contacted by the Contributor / Editor and we exchanged some private messages in which he challenged me to read and review the book, even offering to send me a free copy. I declined saying I’d read enough articles and posts [...]

I may be having my best year as a writer. The problem is, I feel terribly unproductive. To really understand this would probably require far more psycho-analyzing than is healthy. So let me just describe the symptoms. Earlier this year (February 2013), I finished an Urban Fantasy novel tentatively entitled Reagan Moon & The Ghost [...]