Special Book Offer

I have just had a shipment of Adventures in Orthodoxy from England. The covers on these books are slightly inferior in print quality, so I am making a special offer to readers of my blog. The book normally sells for $20.00 which includes p+p. But you can have a copy for just $15.00 (we'll give you a $5.00 rebate) or you can choose a free copy of my little book How to Be an Ordinary Hero.

If you would like to take advantage of the offer, then go to my website here and order a copy at the normal price and pay by PayPal. Then, in the PayPal 'instructions to seller' box say that you are taking advantage of the sale offer. Say whether you would like the rebate check or the copy of How to Be an Ordinary Hero.

We will either enclose a check for $5.00 with the book, or include your free copy of my book How to Be an Ordinary Hero worth $10.00.

Adventures in Orthodoxy is (my favorite of my books, even if it hasn't been everyone else's) I describe it as a Chestertonian romp through the Apostle's Creed. Here's an excerpt from the chapter about God:

I have a curious respect for atheists. There is something heroic about an outspoken atheist. He wears his denial of God on his sleeve with a certain panache. He challenges the deity as Cyrano de Bergerac duels with death. The atheist courageously contradict the instincts of the entire human race to declare the non-existence of God. Like a latter day Don Quixote, the atheist rides off to joust with the windmills of superstition, religion and the fairy tale deity. With touching absurdity, the crusading atheist overlooks the fact that he spends time and effort refuting something he does not believe exists. That is why I like atheists. The rebel in me always admires someone who paddles upstream, and should they attempt to scale a waterfall in their canoe my admiration for them increases. The campaigning atheist is like that. Despite all the evidence, despite the universal religious instinct of the human race, he acts on his solemn belief that there is nothing to solemnly believe in. Because of his passion I have a grudging respect for the militant atheist, but that is also why I don’t believe he is really an atheist. He believes too much and cares too much for truth to really be an atheist.