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Oh. I forgot about this part. You write a book and you’re holed away in your thoughts, and you show your drafts to your wife and your friends, and people rave. Or if they find something that needs tweaking, they offer warm hearted suggestions. But then the thing gets out there, and people tee off. At first you think, “that just goes with the territory.” Actually, first you think, “I hope the thing draws enough attention to get some criticism–good for sales!” But then, you’ve got the Internet and email which we all know promotes candor, speaking one’s mind, brutal honesty, minus relationship. So I got my first “what a load of crap” blog review. [Though check out the bloggers comment--thinks I misread it, and I think he's right. Sensitive writer syndrome strikes yours truly!]
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We did a “man on the street” video interview thing in downtown Ann Arbor. Just wandered around with a video camera asking people if they would mind sharing their perspectives on faith in America. What, in particular, did they think of American Christianity? Most people were eager to say, and what they had to say was, well, damning. A hard word. Tempted to soften it. Who wants to hear that about one’s faith? Not many of us.
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So I wrote this book to be released by Thomas Nelson by the end of May. It’s called Jesus Brand Spirituality: He Wants His Religion Back. I decided to write it as non-defensively as possible. Such a counter-intuitive posture for a pastor to assume. Every week give or take, you’re out there saying something, and of course, you get feedback, much of it positive, but also, of course, you get negative feedback, usually by way of email which comes at you cold–heartless words somehow. Even when when the words are written with a warm heart, something about the medium seems to strip the words bare.
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