Books

The Slide (An Excerpt)

In the fall, I posted excerpts from two books I’m currently working on: Shelter Me, an historical novel about a French village that...

Coming Soon:

1025 BC David He stands naked before the wind. It pummels him with fists of gusting. It pulls his hair sharply back, tugs hard his flesh....

Faith Today – Interview

A Canadian author tackles the life of David in upcoming novel: A FT mini-interview with Mark Buchanan

Confessions of an Imperfect Sabbath-keeper

Pentre-cwrt My wife and I and daughter Nicola lived in Wales for 4 months, in winter and spring of 2012. Sarah, our other daughter,...

The Church as a City of Refuge

This June, my wife and I visited the village of Le Chambon sur Lignon, in the mountains of France near the borders of Switzerland and...

How to Have a Beautiful Soul (or Avoid an Ugly One)

Notes from Underground is something else entirely. It’s the jumbled confession of a jaded twisted man, immersed in his own torment and...

Novel Excerpt

Novel Excerpt I am just finishing up edits on my novel, David, and thought it good to post another excerpt. This chapter has Michal,...

Rediscovering the Depths

A book I read recently confirmed for me a growing hunch: that all the information the internet puts instantly at our disposal is making...

Going to Mordor

Your Church is Too Safe Hi, everyone. My new book, Your Church is Too Safe: Why Following Christ Turns the World Upside-Down, is ready to...

I Want to Say…..

I’m writing this at a flood tide of emotion. I am stunned almost to disbelief that, after this coming Sunday, I won’t see you until July,...