DISQUS

Thanks, Don, for this compliment and link.

Standing! Yikes! I've been told that John Howard Yoder, well-known theologian, always stands, even in his study, which has been built so everything is at standing height.

There's nowhere else quite like it! (I'm going to be speaking there at the end of the month. Yeah!)

There's just about nothing better in life than walking among the redwoods!

Marcus, I'm reminded of the time in a worship service when the leader said, "Now let's lift up prayers honoring God's holiness" and my son, about five years old, shouted, "Thank you Jesus that I could see the Godzilla movie today!"

Marcus: Great piece. I read the first book with my kids. Was more bothered by the unconvincing story, dialogue, etc., than the anti-God stuff. I haven't seen the movie.

N.T. Wright also said that the problem with the Christian response to this film is that it fails to consider that most of the movies out there are just as bad from a faith point of view.

My friend Jim Ware has a book on this author. Jim is a very balanced and thoughtful Christian. I haven't read his book yet, but I'm sure it will be excellent.

http://www.amazon.com/Shedding-Light-His-Dark-M...

I love this post. It's right on. Just wait until your kids are teenagers, then write again!

Sweet. You are the gabcast man!

Well, I think it all depends on how we use the adjective. If a "Christian writer" writes as such an insider that he or she is unintelligble to "non-Christians," and if his or her ideas reflect a lack of engagement of anything outside of the "Christian" world, and if his or her writing shows a narrowness of scope, then I agree. If a "Christian writer" writes as a Christian, as a person who has a truly Christian worldview, as someone who shares a fully Christian vision of the creation and the future in Christ, as a Christ-like person who lives in this world and interacts with this world, then I think we need more Christian writers.

Marcus: Great stuff. I look forward to talking with you about all of this. I do appreciate your geekishness. Geeks have pretty much taken over the Western world, you know.

Hey, Marcus, check this out:

http://www.markdroberts.com/htmfiles/archives/2...

Did Jesus wear that red hat?

Marcus, thanks, not only for your giving me the benefit of the doubt, but for understanding what I was really doing in that "so-called" debate. I would have loved to have had a true conversation, or even debate, with Hitchens. But, as you say, he seemed unwilling to do this sort of thing. It's too bad, really, because I think we could have had a valuable conversation. In the end, I wanted to be as clear and gracious as I could be. I kept wondering how Jesus would handle Himself in such a setting. I'm sure He would have done much better than I! But I was at least trying.