I started watching AMC’s “The Walking Dead” for two reasons. One, my cyber writing friends talked a lot about it. Secondly, my daughter Melody raved about it. So I rented the first season on Netflix and liked it. Along the way, my wife Lisa started watching and liked it enough to go back and watch [...]
Yep. Another book about someone’s Near Death Experience (NDE) is hitting the market. This one’s a little different because it’s written by a neurosurgeon who, seemingly, brings a more clinical, skeptical analysis to the experience. Eben Alexander purportedly visited heaven while in a coma for seven days in 2008. The account of his journey into [...]
The other day on Facebook, I got into a brief discussion that involved the doctrine of the Immutability of God, in this case, Does God ever change His mind? In my answers, I found myself employing a paradigm that helps me resolve apparent biblical paradoxes. In doing so, I realized how incongruous my thinking could [...]
In my most recent book giveaway on Goodreads, I opened the contest up to Canadians, Aussies, and Brits. It was an experiment of sorts because I had no idea what postage is like to those places. Well, of the three winners, one was from Great Britain. The postage to send one copy of The Telling [...]
I was recently made aware of what could be a disturbing trend. Apparently, several faith-themed, digital spec-fic publishers will be scaling back, if not completely ending, their operations. Johne Cook, editor of Raygun Revival, recently announced the closure of their digital mag. At least, the latest incarnation of it. In doing so, he shares what [...]
Over at The Gospel Coalition, in a post titled Why I Don’t believe in the Universal Fatherhood of God, Justin Taylor posted an excerpt from one of my all-time favorite preachers, Charles Spurgeon: “Believe the doctrine of the Fatherhood of God to His people. Abhor the doctrine of the universal Fatherhood of God, for it [...]
(This is a companion piece to my last post.) Karma is antithetical to grace and mercy, and grace and mercy are at the heart of the Gospel. None of us gets everything we deserve, and sometimes the slightest effort to do good is multiplied rather than matched. But who can deny that what goes around, [...]
Christians love to quote the story of the Prodigal Son as an example of God’s lavish grace. And indeed it is! However, it’s also an example of God’s excruciating patience. God is willing to let people go, let them hit bottom, in order to, perchance, get them back. How unlike us. My father was a [...]
I have several projects in the works that I wanted to tell you about. I’m aiming to have them all completed by the end of this year. Fingers crossed. First, I’ll be releasing an anthology of short stories, which will include a new, unpublished story. This anthology will be novella size at 30K-plus words and [...]
It’s bad enough that Christian publishers are unsure what to do with speculative fiction writers. But must we compound this by acting like outsiders? The first ever Christian writers conference I attended back in 2006 had a workshop for speculative fiction writers. Frankly, I was a little embarrassed to be in it. Why? Not only [...]
