Mary Simpson Poplin, PhD, Professor of Education, School of Educational Studies, Claremont Graduate University, has been (and continues to be) a significant encouragement to and ministry partner with the Emerging Scholars Network. Even before receiving a copy of Is Reality Secular? Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews (InterVarsity Press, 2014), I knew that it was important to highlight Is Reality Secular? on the blog  (See three early posts: 1, 2, 3). Over the course of the past several months, I have had the opportunity to engage Mary in an extended conversation regarding her new publication resulting in a blog series. Thank-you Mary!  To God be the glory!
So without further ado, let’s dive in by asking . . .
Tom: Why did you write the book, Is Reality Secular?
Mary: Actually I think I just never stopped writing the Appendix of Finding Calcutta after it went to press in 2008. The editor asked me to add a section to explain where I was in my intellectual crisis at that moment. I resisted at first because it changed the conversation entirely, but it did prompt me to keep writing as I was digging myself out of the hole of “plausible arguments†I had accepted. [Read more…] about Mary Poplin on “Is Reality Secular?”