http://www.transpersonalstudies.org/ImagesRepository/ijts/Downloads/Andreescu.pdf

Greg, No, there is no hard copy version, only e-book (which, by the way, you can read on any P.C. or Apple computer with a free app from Amazon). However, much of the content of that e-book will appear in Vanishing Grace.

I’m interested in the unofficial subtitle of your book, “Why Christians are so unpopular and what, if anything, we should do about it.” I am in the uncommon position of attending a conservative church (formed as the result of a liberal-versus-evangelical split a few years before I joined it) and working full-time in a youth health setting defined by liberal/socialist values. It’s a jolt, passing from one world into the other and then back again on such a regular basis. I’m waiting for someone from either world to corner me and ask some probing questions about my involvement in the “other” world. I’m continually surprised that I’m on the leadership team of my church, and I’m just as frequently surprised that my liberal colleagues, who know I’m a Christian, regard me so positively. (Recently, a tract titled The Gospel of Jesus Christ was found in our reception area, and the manager threw it in the bin, saying, “We don’t need to be promoting that sort of thing around here.”) There is a worrying disconnect between those two worlds—a chasm that neither seems interested in closing. I wrestle with a sense of responsibility that God has placed me where I am in order to be the bridge—but nobody’s crossing it yet. Whilst each of these polar opposites represents some of the truth, neither has the whole truth—and yet neither wants to be told that. The disconnect continues…

P. S. Just wondering how to get a copy of your book, Christians and Politics: Uneasy Partners. Also, how are you going with your memoir? It seems like it’s a long term project.

God bless you as you continue to use your gift of writing to ‘dialogue’ with the church!

Sue Smith
Baker Book House

Sounds like a timely book. In Australia, Christians are treated as if they have rabies in the Media. Any ‘good’ is ignored, and anything bad is shrieked from the mountaintops. I keep trying to remind myself that it’s all about being authentic at the grass roots, and leave the rest up to the Boss.