I unexpectedly came across The Unlikely DIsciple while at Barnes & Nobles looking for another book. I purchased it between 3 and 4:00 PM yesterday amd did not (could not) put it down until I finished it around 4:00 Am this morning. It is quite literally the most interesting, inciteful, funny, best written book I have ever read. I am a 65 year old retiree who graduated from an infinitely more strict fundamentalist university many years ago. Even then I was uncomfortable with many of the hateful attitudes I saw in the insitutiom among some of the administration. faculty and students, but I, like you also met a lot of wonderful, loving people. Reading your book bought back memories of the best and worst of those college years. Unfortunately, after all those years, my alma mater is still more rigid and fundamentalist than Liberty and has considered Liberty to be “liberal” since its beginning. I am still a conservative evangelical Christian but for the last quarter century have been affiliated with the “kinder, more gentle” elements of that group. I wish more evangelical Christians had your heart and exhibited your type of love for people with whom they disagree. I hope to read more of your work in the future and I pray that God will cntinue to work in your heart.

— Michael Pinnix
March 28, 2009, 9:47 am