Five Books I Want To Write

1) Revelations of St. John the Divine for Dummies-- I spent a ridiculous amount of my college years studying new religious movements (NRMs) that incorporated Christian millenialist thinking and violent philosophies (translation: I studied suicide cults). Therefore, I'm pretty well conversant in end-time theories and how often Revelations is twisted to make people afraid. And that's just stupid, annoying, and downright wrong.

2) The Nun in the Belltower-- A fictional novel focusing on a religious sister who has an office in the Chico State belltower. There aren't really offices in there, as a matter of fact it's totally off-limits, wired with alarms and locked three ways from Sunday. No, I didn't try to break in, I asked once how one would get permission to go up there. Basically, it would be a love story to my first (and thus far, favorite) university.

3) The as-yet untitled but I'm referring to it as Nuns in Spaaaace! novel-- That's about all I've got, but the concept of the radical cloistering available in outer space is intruiging.

4) You Might Be a Layperson If...-- This title is also in flux. Basically, it's kind of a beginning formation for laity, especially those who have grown up in a church and the deepest theological instruction they've received is whatever they picked up in Sunday School.

5) Shine, Jesus, Shine, or Why Praise Songs Suck-- Just kidding. Couldn't think of a fifth book.