http://www.religiongonebad.com/blog The weblog for Mel White's book Religion Gone Bad Sat, 24 May 2008 12:43:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OK, so I concede defeat. This first time blogger just couldn’t keep up. I had hoped to send a report from every city on my book tour for Religion Gone Bad but the nights were short and the days were packed with media interviews, radio talk shows, bookstore signings, taxi ... http://www.religiongonebad.com/blog/?p=12 In Minnesota, the publisher of Religion Gone Bad, the Jeremy Tarcher/Penguin Group, selected the Wayzata Community Church for my talk/Q&A session/book signing. The church hosts a distinguished author series every year featuring at least 12 authors and their latest books. For clergy or laity shopping for a creative new idea to ... http://www.religiongonebad.com/blog/?p=11 With Salvation Army band music blasting from the car stereo at full volume, I rode the 45 minutes from Midway Airport to the Hotel Monaco with Daryl Lach, my long time friend, guide and “chauffer for the day.” En route he described the ghosts who haunted every Chicago neighborhood complete ... http://www.religiongonebad.com/blog/?p=10 Johnny Lochner, a friend in Dallas from Cathedral days, picked me up at DFW and without even asking delivered me straight to our beloved Black Eyed Pea for fried corn on the cob, turnip greens boiled in bacon fat, pickled okra, smashed potatoes smothered in white gravy, fried green tomatoes ... http://www.religiongonebad.com/blog/?p=9 Today, I was met at Union Station in Washington, D.C. by Paul Peachy, the first of many “author escorts” the publisher has hired to guide me through the media maze that I will encounter in each city visited. Ken Siman, my man at Penguin, was kind enough to lodge me ... http://www.religiongonebad.com/blog/?p=6 Actually, Religion Gone Bad was launched by my publisher, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin (a member of the Penguin Group) at Barnes&Noble in Lynchburg two days before the official book tour began. Gary and I arrived at the bookstore afraid that we would spend the evening alone smiling with embarrassment at the ... http://www.religiongonebad.com/blog/?p=5 September 7, 2006 ... http://www.religiongonebad.com/blog/?p=4 Great News! After 12 years of writing and research I have finally finished Religion Gone Bad: Hidden Dangers from the Christian Right. On September 5, 2006, I begin a month long, nationwide tour introducing Religion Gone Bad to the general public. I hope and pray that this sequel ... http://www.religiongonebad.com/blog/?p=3