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Brennan Manning has written a memoir titled All Is Grace that will be published this year by David C. Cook Publishing. I wrote the Foreword, and include excerpts here about my friend. I first met Brennan Manning at an event called Greenbelt Festival in England, a sort of Christian Woodstock of artists, musicians and speakers … Read more
I went to prison last Monday: the maximum security unit of Folsom Prison, the California institution made famous by a visit from Johnny Cash, who gave a concert there in 1968. “We arranged a limo for you,” said my host Jim Carlson who met me at the gate, then laughingly escorted my wife and me … Read more
In 2006 I spoke to a group of Army chaplains, all colonels and generals, at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Having almost no personal exposure to the military, I was impressed by the pervasive discipline. Meetings started on the dot at “0800” or “0900,” speakers presented for at least an hour, and no cell phones went … Read more
Last weekend was the fourth anniversary of the rollover accident which I describe in the first chapter of What Good Is God? Appropriately, we spent it with some wonderful friends from the church in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where I spoke on Prayer the day before my Ford Explorer slipped off an icy road and … Read more
A few days ago I got a letter from a Croatian man who introduced himself as the translator of my book What’s So Amazing About Grace? into Croatian. He asked if I would write a preface for the book specifically for Croatia. “You have referred to the Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian experience during the recent war,” he said. … Read more
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