The Developing Dangerous Situation: A Lesson from Dr. Mike Strawn

The Developing Dangerous Situation Recently I received my first copy of a monthly bulletin from the GBS-CIDP organization. It provides support for those who suffer from Guillain Barre Syndrome (in all its variants) and its ongoing sister-disease, Chronic Inflammatory...

Two new online articles praise The Mormon Mirage

The furor over a Dallas pastor calling Mormonism “a cult” has led to the release of two new online articles that have nice things to say about my book, The Mormon Mirage.  I'm particularly grateful to see that someone who doesn't know me personally...

When Death links us to Eternity — as a Book Does

My cousin had a remarkable experience this week as her elderly mother was dying. She left the room for a moment, and the hospice workers came running to get her.   “You have to see this,” they said, and led her back into the hospital room. There my frail aunt...

The Triune Godhead

I know that one of the spiritual limps I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life is an aftereffect of believing in a god who didn’t exist. To this day I struggle with the concept of a triune God, and I know that many Christians without my cultic baggage do as well....

How Deeply Satisfying. . .

How deeply satisfying it is, to have a teenager I've never met, who is touched by my book The Hinge of Your History: The Phases of Faith and makes her own T-shirt design based on the book. (It reads: From a Promise to Contradiction, then Resolution).