I just send in the manuscript of the book to my contact at Patheos, in hopes of getting it published under Patheos’ imprint. So happy about this. I really believe in what I’ve done with this book. For the time being, the drafts remain available in Google Docs.
What do people need to know about the atheist movement?
February 23, 2013 By 12 Comments
Book #2 is basically done, but I’m going to try to write a better introduction and one thing that might be really helpful to people is explaining what’s happened with the atheist movement in the last 10 or so years. I’ve realized that I definitely don’t want to give the (false) impression that it’s all [...]
It is finished! Chapter 9 draft for book #2, “Bad religion”
February 21, 2013 By 11 Comments
Here it is! Chapter 9 draft of book #2. Actually, it’s not quite finished because halfway through I said “screw it” with regards to section headings, but the rest of it is there. Suggestions for clever section heading names appreciated.
Beta testing a book: Chapter 6: The conflict between science and religion
January 28, 2013 By 3 Comments
Here you go. It’s basically a compilation of many of the blog post I’ve written this past month, but now you get to see what they look like combined together into a whole. For some reason, I found this chapter unusually frustrating to write, so I’m too sick of it to do a “highlights.” I feel like it [...]
Resolutions
January 3, 2013 By 2 Comments
New Year’s resolutions are cliche. But I’ve read that studies have shown publicly committing to doing something makes it significantly more likely that you’ll actually do it. So I’m going to make a few non-cliche declarations that I don’t think are two unrealistic to keep:
Writer’s block: figuring out what to say about philosophy and science as they relate to religion
December 18, 2012 By 4 Comments
So, next on the agenda is to rework my half-completed drafts of chapters six, seven, and eight of the book, which deal with philosophy and science. But I’m feeling a bit stuck.
Beta testing a book: Chapter 5: An open letter to religious believers on God and evil
December 13, 2012 By 16 Comments
And now… the revised version of chapter 5 of the book. It contains my “open letter on God and evil,” which has been floating around the net for more than two years, longer than any other part of this book. But that’s not all it has. The full chapter consists of:
Beta testing a book: Chapter 4: This is what your religion looks like to me
December 11, 2012 By 9 Comments
Okay, here’s a cleaned-up version of chapter 4 of the book, titled This is what your religion looks like to me. “In this chapter” and other notes below the fold:
What should I call my book?
December 10, 2012 By 24 Comments
A couple weeks ago, I got this comment on one of the posts in my beta testing a book series:
Best testing a book: Chapter 2: The many gods I don’t believe in (yours included)
November 28, 2012 By 12 Comments
I just got done cleaning up my draft of chapter two of the book. It’s called The many gods I don’t believe in (yours included). Summary below the fold: Richard Dawkins’ Big Bad Quote What do ordinary religious believers believe? The theologian who can’t tell you what he believes What is fundamentalism? Who’s really ignorant about theology? [...]
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