"Orbis Books has published a topical selection of your “Essential Writings” in a nice paperback edition. How do you feel about that?

Great question. I just wish you hadn’t asked it! It was a very sobering moment. It was also an overwhelming one. The ancients said, “Sola scriptura manet”—Only the written word remains. To see this collection bound made me very conscious of what it means to be a writer. It is a deeply spiritual responsibility. I would like some day to be worthy of that."

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