When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship with God through Christ.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.