It’s said of author Vance Morgan—this on a podcast from Rhode Island’s Providence College, where, for some three decades, he’s taught philosophy—that “he likes to throw his ethics students headfirst into moral and ethical dilemmas.” Be that as it may, his students, as a rule, esteem him: writes one, “Vance Morgan is hands down the best professor at Providence College.”
For his Soapbox Redemption review of Morgan’s book, Freelance Christianity, Andrew Murtagh avows, “Vance is very intelligent, but also very personal, and serves up some complex topics in a very warm and accessible way. I’m confident you’ll be impressed by his epistemological humility and depth, just as I was.”
A vintage essayist, Morgan—who insists “the written word is…my spiritual lifeline”—“happily paints outside the lines, and draws new lines at will,” a Baptist seminary professor writes of this book for readingreligion.org. In it, he, “unencumbered by biblical creeds and confessions,” crafts and expresses his faith. “Morgan regales with his reminiscences, ruminations, jeremiads, and celebrations, as he works his way through brief, readable chapters…. The language is informal, sassy, ’salty,’ and predictably therapeutic.” Indeed, readers “will recognize it as an account of, and exercise in, soul therapy….”
Freelance Christianity: Philosophy, Faith, and the Real World
By Vance Morgan
Cascade Books, 2017