Not too long ago, FallenandFlawed blog interviewed me about my apologetics ministry and some of my activities, including this book series. As tends to happen with me, I got a little long and only a portion of the interview could be posted. With permission, here is the question and answer regarding the book. (I posted additional unpublished portions of the interview here):
Q. You've got a fiction series called Birth Pangs. What motivated you to write this series? What's it about?
I guess you could say that the Birth Pangs series is my own excursion into 'literary apologetics.' It's pretty unique. A friend has described it as belonging to the didactic genre. The series is set in the 'not too distant future' after America has been laid low by foreign armies and a biological and nuclear holocaust. Now, they are rebuilding from scratch. This setting allows me to discuss everything under the sun: what is truth, what is real, how do you know? What is the relationship between religion and government? What does it mean to be human? Or a man or a woman in particular? So on and so forth, only in my series there is no government, church, or school to tell the characters what the real answers are.
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