Bestselling Author Launches Radical New Sermon Series in Oklahoma
Rev. Michael Dowd, controversial author of the bestselling book Thank God for Evolution, is bringing a radical new sermon series to pulpits across America in what may be his boldest message yet to fellow Christians:
“The New Atheists are God’s prophets, and believers need to listen up.”
Dowd will deliver the first of his new sermons at some of the largest liberal Christian churches in Oklahoma in early August. He and his wife Connie Barlow, an accomplished science writer, have spoken in hundreds of American churches of nearly every denomination since hitting the road in 2002 with their unorthodox ministry of calling believers “home to Reality.”
According to Dowd, God is speaking pointedly to Christians today through some very unlikely messengers outside the church—namely New Atheists, such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. These bestselling authors mock the biblical view of a God who, according to the U.S. Department of Defense’s definition of terrorism, is a cosmic terrorist.
“The God that Richard Dawkins says is a delusion is a delusion!” asserts Dowd. “That way of thinking about God reflects an outdated, Bronze Age worldview that we have blindly believed for generations simply because someone said so and because our traditions taught us to. Biblical literalists are driving thinking Christians out of the church.”
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