Book Review: God's Blogs by Lanny Donoho
December 28, 2005 Posted by Roger Overton
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If God were a blogger, what would He blog? Lanny Donoho has some ideas, and has put them into his book- God’s Blogs. The book contains some 42 blogs from God written in a personal, and usually comical, manner. The key to the book is the “Nondisclaimer” at the beginning: “This book is supposed to be an enjoyable look at the principles God put in the Bible… and they’re done with a twist. For some people it is easier to grasp the grace and truth of God if they feel like His word is personal to them… from Him” |
At best, God’s Blogs is a creative and insightful look at what God might say in a blog. At worst, it’s often too creative and goes beyond “the principles God put in the Bible.” That might be to take the book too seriously, though, since its tone is rather light-hearted.
Still, the God in God’s Blogs sounds more like the contemporary therapeutic God than the God of the Bible. For all of the accounts of God being holy and angry in the Bible, one might expect such attributes to be portrayed to some extent in the blogs. However, only a playful, almost carefree, God is found. In this way, though creatively thoughtful with fun colors and illustrations, God’s Blogs fails to capture many of “the principles God put in the Bible.”
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December 29th, 2005 at 1:58 pm
Could this be a modern reversal and reinterpretation of C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters? I'll have to pick this up and give it a read…
December 29th, 2005 at 3:40 pm
James, I don't think so (though I can't say for sure whether the author had that in mind). It's written from God's perspective to us, His children- which in the book means everyone He created. The tone is also not as serious as Screwtape.