The F Word

The lovely Tim Hirst of Hirst Books (in the UK) is going to publish my latest literary effort, which I'm calling: The F Word: Where Faith Meets Fact. Tim has a wonderful little press that is publishing both entertaining and important reads. His model is the future of publishing and it's going to be loads of fun to be doing this project with him. So, for kicks and grins, I've started this blog so that potential readers and all my friends and colleagues can keep tabs on this project as it comes to fruition!

So, what is The F Word, anyway? The fruition of a lifetime of research and involvement as a skeptical investigator of "claims of the paranormal." More than a hobby, it's a passion, which from time to time bleeds into my academic scholarship.

THE BLURB:

What do God, Bigfoot, the Roswell aliens, homeopathic cough syrup, and the housing market all have in common? It takes faith for them to exist. It is said that faith can move mountains. But it can also make us believe in things that simply aren’t real.

The F Word takes a skeptical look at some of our most commonly held “faith-based” beliefs, including religion, monsters, ghosts, astrology, medical quackery, the free market economy, anti-evolutionism, and many others in an effort to understand why we believe what we believe. Does faith help us or hurt us? It can do both. The F Word unmasks the scoundrels who take advantage of our willingness to believe and cultivates the thinking tools that help us to make good “reality-based” decisions.

Once you read the F Word you may never take anything simply “on faith” again!

I'll be posting some chapter summaries over the next few days so you can see what to expect!