Last month, my Facebook friends compared modern-day Christian authors to well-known musicians in style and influence. Here’s what they came up with:
John MacArthur = Glenn Miller
Tony Evans = LL Cool J
Rob Bell = Bono
Frank Viola = Jimi Hendrix (and Jim Morrison)
Eugene Peterson = Woody Guthrie
N.T. Wright = Pavarotti
Alan Hirsch = Slash
Dan Kimball = Elvis Costello (and Brian Wilson)
Creflo Dollar = Snoop Dog
John Piper = John Mayer
Bill Hybels = Wayne Netwon (and Eric Clapton)
Stanley Hauerwas = 50 Cent
Leonard Sweet = Frank Zappa (my choice)
Now for a postscript: What’s the deal with white book covers?
UnChristian book? What do you think of that book?
It just confirms what this post and the comments say: https://www.frankviola.org/2011/03/02/christians-are/
No offense Frank — (your new book is great) — but what does give with the white book covers? Hopefully this trend won’t last. They leave me, well, a little cold.
No worries. I’ve written over 10 since this blog post, and none of them are white! 😉
Only “From Eternity to Here” has a white cover. My book on the kingdom of God due out to release in 2018 has a black cover.