Bible Babel‘s been getting some good love lately. Now a national best-seller, thanks esp to the good folks I saw in MN and wonderful readers at Politics and Prose in DC! Many thanks to Martin Sieff for bringing an open mind and sense of humor to his Washington Times review yesterday. Meanwhile, spring is bustin’ out in Charlottesville, …
A whirlwind trip to MN for a few bookstore events, and I am reminded how lucky I am to have such a great family and truly wonderful friends. Besides meeting some new people, interested for a variety of intriguing ways in Bible Babel, I got to catch up with friends and family that I haven’t …
February, and I’m excited to be heading to MN… for a few days, anyway. I know. You’d think it’s the worst time, and yet — to share warm conversation about books with family and friends and friends-yet-to-meet — is an especially sweet pleasure in the midst of winter’s hold on the north. And word’s getting …
Driving north on 95, my dad caught this MPR chat with MN’s own Chemberlin and FL mega-church pastor Hunter re the changing role of churches and religion, in general, these days. Gives a person all kinds of hope for a measured and sensible approach by religious leaders to the challenges we face today and the future …
Hospitality in fierce climes is crucial. The hospitality of the desert is legendary, and several biblical stories hinge on it. Who knows, some suggest, but you might at any time be entertaining angels. Abraham and Sarah made a comfortable place for visitors, undercover messengers of God, who declared that the elderly Sarah will finally have …
