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Comment on coming soon… by Chadley

Chadley — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:43:28 +0000

anyone else have to look up “lagomorph”? lol

Comment on coming soon… by Shaughnessy

Shaughnessy — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:07:41 +0000

And Black Meat and Remission were never heard from again.

Comment on An open letter to The Flaming Lips by Jo Shmill

Jo Shmill — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:02:58 +0000

Hi, Josh.

I love you and Showbread. I have disagreements with some of your beliefs (thought the fact that Jesus is God and came to die for us all is not one of those disagreements). But I love where your hearts are all the same. One thing I wonder about you and a lot of other Jesus-followers is why you don’t want to be called a Christian? Men are most often seen as lazy, piggish, perverted, and so many other negative things. Do you stop calling yourself a man? No. I think instead of not calling ourselves Christians (or men) we should try to change the way people have perceived Christians by the way we live. I honestly don’t think your letter would have any more or less impact if you had called yourself a Christian. I think disassociating yourself with the more religious Christians is only making them look worse, and I don’t think we should make others look worse. Obviously we shouldn’t hide others’ faults either. Christians are all one community. Each has a separate set of faults. So to continuously divide Christianity into separate tribes of belief is to divide the body of Christ.

Love, Josh

Comment on coming soon… by Luke

Luke — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:24:55 +0000

Oh my gosh Josh your awesome, always good news coming out. My book is delayed but news of a new series just makes up for the delay cannot wait

Comment on An open letter to The Flaming Lips by Matt Duhamel

Matt Duhamel — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:15:50 +0000

As an aspiring writer, a follower of Jesus, and a man who seeks to bridge the gap between all people I want to thank you for writing this.

It has its faults, as all things do, but you did it from a place of honesty and genuine affection and that is commendable.

I hope we get to meet in person someday.

Comment on coming soon… by Josh

Josh — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:42:31 +0000

Sounds awesome!
Keep writing man, you’re an inspiration for me to continue on also.

Comment on coming soon… by Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:44:06 +0000

I would read this. Multiple times.

Comment on coming soon… by Garrett

Garrett — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:51:46 +0000

Yes.

Comment on order Josh’s new novel now! by sam

sam — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:37:27 +0000

got it several days ago and read the whole thing in one sitting, couldn’t put it down. great book.

Comment on An open letter to The Flaming Lips by Josh Dies

Josh Dies — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:51:59 +0000

Thanks for the critical jab JS. I honestly need the humbling counter-point on a regular basis. I think there’s some wisdom in there.

Though it obviously came across as such, proselytizing and bemoaning were honestly not my intentions. More of an attempt to clear the air in a way.

That said, each of our world views obviously color our words in a very palpable way.

Your thought, for example—You think your own communicative methodology better than the one I’ve employed in my open letter (and you’re probably right). So how do you voice it? By letting me know you disapprove of my thoughts and actions and that you believe you have a better way. Isn’t this a kind of proselytizing itself? Maybe I’m off my rocker. I don’t know.

But, in this sense, we’re all “religious” aren’t we? Even though, presumable neither of us feel comfortable with the term.

Anyway, just a thought that occurred to me while reading your thought. Which was well put… your thought that is, not mine.

p.s. I like Hemingway as well.