Coming up: "God Is Alive" in After Dinner Conversation

I'm really surprised at how much I've been getting fiction published in the last few months. I haven't even been trying much; my success rate must be something like 50%. That is, considering I just had another short story accepted for publication.

This one was a story I considered a hard sell because it's much more about making a philosophical point than about telling a story. Fortunately, I ran into After Dinner Conversation, which describes itself as follows:

Philosophical truth is discovered through intentional reflection and respectful debate. In order to facilitate that process, we have created a growing series of short stories, magazine, and podcast discussions, across genres, as accessible examples of abstract ethical and philosophical ideas intended to draw out deeper discussions with students, friends, and family.

After reading their submission guidelines, I immediately knew this was my kind of thing. I also knew this particular story would fit the bill (at least assuming they wanted philosophical questions in general, not just ethical ones like they said in some places). I sent it in and, just a couple of days ago, they accepted it with very warm words.

The short story in question is called "God Is Alive." What does that mean? Well, it's the opposite of "God is dead"... or the mirror image of it.

I'll write more about this later.