Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by a journalist named Jessica Clark for a quote on Donald Miller’s new book. Here’s the piece she wrote:
Million Miles author stops in LR
JESSICA CLARK ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
A New York Times bestselling author says he knows the ingredients to a meaningful life and he’s sharing them Tuesday [...]

Reading “A Million Miles…” is like talking to an old friend, one you used to love and spend a lot of time with but for whatever reason haven’t seen for a long time. This friend used to captivate you and you would enjoy being in their presence so much you wondered if you were [...]

I think Donald is one of, if not THE brightest of “our” writers. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality deserves a place on the highest shelf of that genre… I’m thinking of Madeleine L’engle and Anne Lamott here… and maybe a bit of P.J. O’Rourke. Honestly, Blue Like Jazz changed a few [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Driscoll was in the New York Times, now it’s ABC’s Nightline. (*UPDATE: here is a direct link to the segment or watch below)

Driscoll is getting a lot of attention because of his recent sermon series on The Song of Solomon called “The Peasant Princess” (see series website)  in which he preaches [...]

**These are some additional thoughts on my review of the book found here.**
I don’t agree with the entire book but at many places I found myself elated that this is out there “in the wild” being read by many non-Christians.
I realize how many people around me are against the book, but I don’t think ANY [...]

***You might want to read part1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5 first***
“I wish Ani DiFranco wasn’t a Lesbian.” 
So begins Miller’s chapter on love.  It’s another fine example of why this book would never have shown up in Christian bookstore even a decade ago.   At any rate, Don continues (if you [...]

***You might want to read part1, part 2, part 3, and part 4 first***
I’m quite certain Don’s chapter on confession is unlike anything you’ve read before.  The subtitle of this chapter is “Coming Out of the Closet” and in it Don recounts the experience of setting up a confession booth in the middle of the [...]

Scot McKnight provides more of his trademark clarity in a recent article in Christianity Today:

I maintain a crucial distinction between two related streams: emergent and the broader emerging movement. Emergent is crystallized in Emergent Village and its leaders Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, and Doug Pagitt. Emerging is a mix of orthodox, missional, evangelical, church-centered, and [...]

***You might want to read part1, part 2, and part 3 first***PART 4:
I also want you to know that I believe what Don says about Jesus giving us the ability to love the things we should because I have experienced the transformation.  I could have written, word-for-word what Don says next:

“I tried to love the right things without God’s help, [...]

“And that’s the tricky thing about life, really, that the things we want most will kill us.” This statement follows 13 illustrated pages of a story about sexy carrots. You really need to look at the book to understand, but this is another good reason I never would have found this book in [...]