Be The Religion You Want To See In The World

Sad news: Intervarsity Press isn’t printing Life’s Too Short To Pretend You’re Not Religious any more.

Good news: I’m doing a revised, revamped, and reimagined version with Broadleaf in the months to come.

Also good news: I’m in possession of the entire back stock. So….if you want copies of the lovely red book, I’m your man.

Interesting thing: Even as the fate of the book has felt fragile, an excerpt from the book has gone kindasorta viral. There’s a lesson here about the life of words. I don’t know what it is, but I’m thinking about it. Here’s the chunk of speech (which you’re more than welcome to share/ reproduce):

It could be that this passage will appear before more people than any other one thing I’ve ever written. I’m still happy with it, but I welcome feedback.

Here’s the amazing line from Iris Murdoch that these words lead up to within the longer text: “Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”