When a Book Review Turns Into a Mini Bio

EXTRA: The Church Times (UK) reviews The Evangelical Imagination

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When I tell you I was thrilled to be interviewed for a review of The Evangelical Imagination by The Church Times—an independent Anglican newspaper founded in the UK in 1863—let me say, I was thrilled.

But when the review dropped on Friday, I was stunned: this isn’t just a book review—it’s a short version of my entire life’s work:

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/9-february/features/features/american-evangelicalism-an-apocalypse-mapped

Now I see why this newspaper has been around so long and why the writer, Madeleine Davies, has been so lauded and awarded. She did her homework.

I’ve received a few messages from people who’ve read the article who’ve told me they didn’t know all the pieces of my story or how all the pieces fit together until reading this story. So, I’m sending it along to you, my subscribers, in case you want to read it. It’s a lot: good, bad, and ugly.

But it is my story.

Thanks for being part of it.

I know my subscribers are a diverse bunch, and we don’t share all the same convictions, experiences, beliefs, or trajectories. But the one thing I’ve learned most over the past year is all I can do is be myself. “Everyone else,” as Oscar Wilde famously said, “is already taken.”

Thanks for offering a space where I can be myself. And you can be yourself, too, dear reader.