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We had a “city weekend,” which included a play by Isabella Allende on Friday, a memorial service for a Dr. Vernon Grounds on Saturday, and an urban church on Sunday.  Up in the foothills where we live, the golden aspen leaves have mostly fallen, the mountains visible through our windows are freshly coated in white, and the bull elk rest quietly in meadows or under trees, exhausted by their annual ritual of sparring and mating.  Squirrels and chipmunks are storing ...

A live interview with Philip Yancey about his new book, What Good Is God? is scheduled for the Hachette Book Group Radio channel on BlogTalkRadio on Tuesday, October 19 at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Click on the link below for more details. A recording of the interview will also be posted once it concludes.    — Website Administrator

Rather than add another note to the blog, I’m linking to this interview on my book which will be released October 19.  It’s from an online Christian newspaper (new to me) called The Christian Post.  I don’t know why they publish these things before a book is available…

9/21/2010 I’ve just returned from a trip to South America, spending four days in Brazil and seven in Argentina.  During the trip my publisher in Brazil released my next book, What Good Is God?, six weeks ahead of the U.S. release, something they celebrated with justifiable pride. If ever I doubted reports that the center of global Christianity is moving to places like Africa and Latin America, the book convention in Sao Paulo known as ExpoCrista silenced those doubts.  Just ...

On Sunday, the day before Labor Day, Janet and I leave for Brazil and Argentina.  First we fly via Washington, D.C., to Sao Paulo, a huge metropolis of some 20 million people.  I’ve been there before, and the twenty- and thirty-story buildings of the skyline sprawl as far as you can see on the horizon.  My Brazilian publisher is justifiably proud to be publishing the Portuguese version of What Good Is God? a full six weeks before the U.S. edition ...