‘Basic Instinct’ Author Has Damascus Road Experience

After a lifetime of wild living…
“He felt an overwhelming peace. His heart stopped pounding. His hands stopped twitching. He saw a ’shimmering, dazzling, nearly blinding brightness that made me cover my eyes with my hands.’”
–Joe Eszterhas, author, Basic Instinct and new spiritual memoir Crossbearer
Toledo Blade Article: ‘Basic Instinct’ author writes book about faith

Why Read Until Your Eyes Are Sore?

Because the world has been rescued by three words:

“It is written”

Books

I was tagged by Mike.
1.  One book that’s changed your life:
-I don’t know if a book has ever changed my life, but these have changed the way I think about Christianity: Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell, and Heaven is a Place on Earth by Michael Wittmer.
2.  One book that you’ve read more than once:
-Velvet Elvis
- Our [...]

“Sex God” one of 2007’s best books: Publishers Weekly

About one million books are printed a year.  Publishers Weekly reviewed about 6,000 of them.  Rob Bell’s book Sex God was considered one of the best books of 2007.  Some of my friends are reading it right now and they are really enjoying it.

Madeleine L’Engle died on Thursday

 
Madeleine L’Engle, author of 60 books, died on Thursday, September 6, 2007.  For some reason I started reading her book A Wind in the Door last week, so this news hits a little closer than if I had not been reading anything by her.  One thing I love about L’Engle (and I’ve only read a few [...]

N.T. Wright on Ultimate Reality

“Reality as we know it is the result of a creator god bringing into being a world that is other than himself, and yet which is full of his glory. It was always the intention of this god that creation should one day be flooded with his own life, in a way for which it [...]

Beth Moore on Learning From Elders

Life is difficult. The converts in Lystra, Iconium, and Pisidian Antioch were surely strengthened and encouraged as they saw living examples of people who were surviving hardships with victory and joy. Listening to Paul and Barnabas testify must have greatly impacted their ability to endure. We don’t have Paul and Barnabas, but [...]

J.K. Rowling on the Theme of Evil in Harry Potter Books

“Death is an extremely important theme throughout all seven books, I would say possibly the most important theme. If you are writing about evil, which I am, and if you are writing about someone who is essentially a psychopath, you have a duty to show the real evil of taking human life.
It’s very [...]

Heaven is a Place on Earth

“The new earth will be an exciting, interesting place to be. We will be always growing, always learning more about ourselves, the world, and God. We will never bottom out and become bored, for we will never know as much as God knows. There will always be some new joy to discover, [...]

Sophie’s World: The Faculty of Wonder

“The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.”
To summarize briefly: A white rabbit is pulled out of a top hat. Because it is an extremely large rabbit, the trick takes many billions of years. All mortals are born at the very [...]