On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic….

I don't know if it's something that we as a species are hardwired for or if it's more of a contemporary phenomenon related to technology and rapid di….

All of which raises the question – your task, burden, privilege, call it what you like – a question which men and women, great and not-so of every co….

I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull that I don't understand why s….

I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and read a book again. For the first time in a couple yea….

Some people believe that everyone will experience judgment day. But it's my understanding that the Judgment Day or Rapture that I'm going to experien….

And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to resent the hell out of it, ….

Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference..

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely..

Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers s….

One of the great things about the Bible, one of the things I think keeps people coming back to it, is that it's nothing if not perpetually topical. Y….

I know well what faith really means to people in their daily lives, as there are many people in my family whose lives are permeated by their faith: i….

Singularity will be an opt-in scenario for human beings, especially as we draw closer to it. The more that we have the opportunity to interface with ….

If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction anymore. And I share that fa….

I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction ….

People have invoked the ghost of Hemingway quite a few times in writing about the book. I could get into sticky territory here if I let myself go on ….

I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different muscle. The ongoing paradox ….

Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put it in the book, what I found fasc….

I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose shaped by it later in life. I still hav….

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together..

Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything is al….