The Wanderings of a Theological Vagabond

Don Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz and Christian heartthrob sensation,  just posted a 20 page preview of his newest book: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years.

Here’s a brief  excerpt from the preface:

If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you probably wouldn’t cry at the end of the movie when he drove off the lot testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on and sit in a chair to think about what you’d seen. The truth is you wouldn’t even remember that movie a week later, except to feel robbed and want your
money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who got a Volvo.
But we spend years living those kinds of stories and expect life to feel meaningful. Maybe that’s why we go to so many movies, because our real lives don’t feel meaningful anymore.

I look forward to reading this book.  I hope you do as well.

Earl

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