{"id":1868,"date":"2007-05-10T02:20:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T02:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/05\/atonement-as-a-lifestyle.html"},"modified":"2007-05-10T02:20:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T02:20:40","slug":"atonement-as-a-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/05\/atonement-as-a-lifestyle.html","title":{"rendered":"Atonement as a Life-style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday I flew down to Nashville where the kind folks at Abingdon &#8212; nearly all of them brand new to me &#8212; welcomed me into their fine downtown facilities for a book launch for <em>A Community called Atonement<\/em>, due out in August. This book is the first in the new series, edited by Tony Jones, called Living Theology. John Franke writes the next book &#8212; on truth. It was great meeting the Abingdon staff as I have been reading their books for thirty years. <!--more|inline--><br \/>\nJohn Kutsko and Lynette and Judith and Tammy and Henriett &#8230; I could go on &#8230; hosted a nice book launch along with three other authors. My fine editor at Abingdon, Tim West, unfortunately was not there &#8212; he was at some beach on vacation.<br \/>\nHighlights: I got a couple copies of <em>Circuit Rider<\/em> magazine (how great a title is this for a Methodist outfit?), a more than informative conversation with Lynette from the airport to the publishing house, seeing John Kutsko&#8217;s nice collection of books, meeting the Publisher, Neil Alexander, and sitting at the airport next to a man who provided a stereotype of Nashville&#8217;s music reputation. (He might have approached the airport on a horse. 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