I've just written a book.

An Off-the-Wall Guide to World Religiion".

It's not about gender differences nor does it concern ideology.

It looks at the religions of the world in terms of one question:

What does this or that religion have to offer a dying person?

My book concerns religion for a person in extremis.

Dying seems to "concentrate the mind wonderfully" (Samuel Johnson).

I think it serves a most concentrating purpose in helping a person

sift through the wisdom of religion.

Oh, and by religion, I also mean religions that are not called religions,

such as celebrity, sex, things, one's children, one's life-partner,

one's ideology, and the power that you have and exercise in your life.

Power is a big religion.

Religion covers almost anything that habitually or functionally is

worshipped.

This podcast is dedicated to Ray Ortlund.