Angry Conversations In Chinese

I was pleasantly surprised a year ago when my agent told me a Chinese publisher wanted to buy the rights to my book in Mandarin. My story feels so American; I didn’t imagine how a Mandarin audience would track with it. But I smiled, said thank you and took the money. I found out it was published a couple weeks ago, when I received an email from a reader in Taiwan. You’d think that someone…

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Love or Controversy Wins?

In case you’ve been living under an ecclesial rock, last month Rob Bell released a video promoting his upcoming book, Love Wins. He asks, “Do you know if Ghandi is in Hell? Are you sure?” From there, neo-Calvinist John Piper tweeted, “Farewell Rob Bell. ” The twitterverse lit up like napalm, flaming Bell as a universalist heretic, or Piper as an exclusionary thug. I spied on some twiter discussion and observed a slick chick in…

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