This week’s Speaking of Faith broadcast “Novelist as God” piqued my interest, for in the outlining and writing of Eve, I was playing God. I had to ponder questions like: Was the Garden a perfect place? Did Adam and Eve have sex in the Garden? Did Adam and Eve have children in the Garden? Were […]
Feel-Goodery
It makes me sad that studios like Fox have had to design specific divisions for the evangelical Christian (Fox Faith and Provident Film). Clean, cozy stories for the cleanest people? What? I don’t get it. If you’ve read the Bible through and through, it’s a pretty harrowing read in some places, and from it, we’ve […]
Religion vs. Atheism
I first heard about this book through Books & Culture, and having finished it just now, I would suggest everyone read it–no matter what you believe. Reason #1: The book is 67 pages. You can read it in a jiffy. Reason #2: The two debaters on either end of the spectrum (religion vs. atheism) go […]
The Creation Order
For some of you, this post will be blasphemy, so read no further. For others of you, it might be laughable. But for right now, if you can suspend judgment for a few moments, you might crack open your mind just slightly, to allow your thinking neurons to fire in different ways. [Remember, doubt is […]
Should Eve Have Been Steve?
So. It’s sometime in September of last year, and my husband Dan is reading Eve for the first time while we’re in the Ukraine. Every once in a while, he glances up from reading and makes a statement or asks a question, and I grab my notebook and jot them down. Some of the questions […]