Being an editor for an online magazine affords me the pleasure of receiving more books than any one person could read and review in an expected time frame. But I remain hopeful that every book that quietly sit, jaggedly stacked in the corner next to my bookshelf will one day soon, be reviewed before becoming media for the historical archives.

The one book that caught my eye and seductively lured me in its direction was “Not the Religious Type: Confessions of a Turncoat Atheist.” I’m not familiar with Dave Schmelzer, a former playwriter and atheist, now pastor in the Vineyard heritage somewhere near Cambridge, Mass., but he has an interesting “no-bar, open style of writing.”

In one chapter headed “How M. Scott Peck Saved My Life” Schmelzer has some interesting analogies on the ‘deeply religious’ and the ‘not-so-religious’ who end up in therapy. He comments that often the deeply religious leave their religion after being helped while the not-so-religious find faith as a result of being helped. Schmelzer spends the remainder of this chapter unpacking his discovery. Interesting stuff.

In the not too distant future you’ll be able to read a complete review of this book at New Wineskins Magazine. Also in the May-June issue of New Wineskins (Politics and Faith) will be my conversation with Newt Gingrich.