Dana – Thanks!

Bryan – Wow, thank you. And thank you for giving us all so much to talk about!

Chawna, I’m glad you wrote. I really appreciated your perspectives on this book, especially as they were decidedly different from most of the bloggers. Your above insight on perspective is fascinating, and I can totally relate to it. I too crave stories that tell me I can make it through life without becoming a pirate. I want to finish my days like Joseph of Genesis, and not like King Saul. I suspect you and I have similar backgrounds ;). Thanks!

While I still stand by my heroic heroes, I have come to wonder if the difference is that of perspective. For while I am not perfect and am very aware of that fact, I have very few regrets. But I also know what a fine edge I walk, and I fear that the day will come that I will make that pirate decision. So I crave and connect with stories that say, “Yes, it is possible to live as God wants without a major fall, to make the right decisions under fire.” Blaggard’s Moon, on the other hand, is more focused on redeeming the life of a person, Christian or non-Christian, after the fall–a story like the Apostle Peter’s.

Hmm…sounds like I have a whole post here.

Anyway, thank you for your insightful words. It has given me the understanding I needed during this tour.

Thanks so much for the thoughtful posts. You write a book that tries to bring all the beauty and pain and heroism and sacrifice of a desperately important world that so often seems desperately meaningless, and you hope someone sees past the pirates. When someone does, you are thankful to your soul and it all seems worth it. God bless Rachel Starr Thompson.

–Bryan

The thing is, we all do want a heroic hero to show up, but as you say, Polivka has it right as far as he goes. There is no heroic hero. Except Jenta and Damerick act as types of the One True Perfect Hero. They do rescue the one they love. They do bring a measure of redemption. I loved them because they made me think of the Greatest Sacrifice. So in the end, I thought Polivka gave me that taste of eternity that we are all longing for.

Becky