The Book Extracted
Comic Book Character
"We're all in many ways like these heroes. Despite our best efforts some people will be intimidated enough by our strengths that they will try to manipulate our weaknesses. . . . Even the best of us are motivated enough by personal gain to be threatened or opportunistic in how we relate to others."
Interviewee: Don Everts
Author of The Smell of Sin
Intervarsity Press: What inspired you to write about a tough topic like sin?
Don Everts: A couple years ago I began a serious wrestling match with some of Jesus' teachings about sin. I began to realize that I didn't agree with Jesus. He taught as if sin were very, very serious. I honestly felt that when I sinned, I was just being naughty. The more I studied Jesus' words on sin, the more I realized that he and I disagreed with each other.
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If Loving The Blog is Wrong
in Strangely Dim
What'd you do this weekend? I ran the gamut of contemporary singalong culture. Thursday night I sang along with people at church, mostly songs that are in rotation on Christian radio. Friday night I sang along with my friends and... Read more >>
I, Too, Am Likewise
Charles Williams
Given to writing weirder-than-fiction "supernatural thrillers" - as T. S. Eliot described them - Charles Williams was often misunderstood by friends J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Certainly, he was unlike his peers. He had eyeballs like tiny black amulets. The family doctor said . . .
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