Zmirak on Forgiveness

John Zmirak writes about turning the other cheek here in his usual rambunctious and erudite style. John and I have developed a partnership in crime. He's working for Crossroads publishing and likes my book Adventures in Orthodoxy so much that he wants to re-publish it with the new title The Quest for the Creed along with it's sequel (which is almost done) called The Romance of Religion. There is a third book in the alliteratively entitled trilogy called The Triumph of the Trinity. However, this third book demands a certain amount of research rather than me flying by the seat of my theological pants, so I doubt if it will get written since it sounds like hard work.



I would encourage other authors to submit their manuscripts to John at Crossroads, but you have to have a genuinely weird name to get published by them. 'Zmirak' and 'Longenecker' are definitely memorable, but I think 'John' is probably a bit dull. If asked for a more interesting first name Zmirak would probably come up with something classical like 'Septimus' or 'Xavier', but to I think it should be something authentically American and tacky like my own. Maybe he could be called 'Trey' or 'Bryce'.