{"id":600,"date":"2006-10-22T22:15:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2006\/10\/a-new-book.html"},"modified":"2006-10-22T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T22:15:11","slug":"a-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2006\/10\/a-new-book.html","title":{"rendered":"A New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I promised when I began this blog I would talk about some inside publishing details. Here we go! <\/p>\n<p>On Monday night of last week, I thought of a great idea for my next book. At least I think it&#8217;s a great idea &#8211; time well tell. Currently , I&#8217;m working on a book that will be released by Thomas Nelson in the summer of &#8217;07 entitled, <strong><em>Confessions of a Good Christian Guy<\/em><\/strong>. More on that later.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to write my next book to fit with <strong><em>Fields of the Fatherless<\/em><\/strong>. This book is it! I called my publisher on Monday evening of last week to tell them about the idea and they loved it. If all goes well, I will have it finished within 30 days and it will be released in January of &#8217;07. Exciting, huh? And yes, 30 days to finish a book is a very short period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow at 4:00 is the &#8216;Big&#8217; meeting with the entire publishing crew and my agent. Please pray this goes well and that everything moves full speed ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not at liberty to tell you the title yet. Sorry to keep you in suspense! For those of you who know me well, you know it has to be about orphans, it has to be inspired by Bono, and it has to &#8211; in some small way &#8211; change the world! I will give you an insight into the content. This is a portion of the book from the introduction. Stay tuned for an update on how the meeting goes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>&quot;The Christian church owes an apology to the 50 million individuals in our world currently infected with HIV\/AIDS. For our apathy, our lack of love, and our self-righteousness towards the AIDS epidemic in Africa and around the world, I apologize.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>For those of us who claim to follow Christ&#8217;s teachings, we should be ashamed for what little we have done to help the countless millions of women, children and orphans who have died or are dying. Entire nations are going up in flames while we watch them burn.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Bono (the lead singer from the Irish rock band, U2) and the supporters of the ONE Campaign are right when they talk about crisis and emergency in Africa. The continent is &#8216;on fire&#8217; with AIDS and it will not be long before entire countries are wiped off the face of the planet. Bono is also right when he proclaims that history will judge our generation for how we respond to AIDS.&quot;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I promised when I began this blog I would talk about some inside publishing details. Here we go! On Monday night of last week, I thought of a great idea for my next book. At least I think it&#8217;s a great idea &#8211; time well tell. 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