God Explains It All

03/30/2026

Presenting excerpts from GEIA at the Sunday service at the https://www.facebook.com/UFHouston last week has inspired me to get busy again trying to finish the Revised & Expanded Edition and get it available to the public.

Check back here for updates.

The Unitarian Fellowship of Houston has been a beacon of our all inclusive Unitarian Universalist faith in the Houston Spring Branch area since 1959.

03/21/2025

When I launched this FB page, God Explains It All was the primary focus of my writing. So, I envisioned posting regular updates about new "conversations" (i.e. chapters) as I finished writing them and promoting free access to a digital copy of GEIA.

In the meantime, though, I have added a number of new writing projects, all of which are at various stages of completion: a collection of short stories called God Tales, a sort-of-sci-fi multi-generational time-travel mystery called The Family Tree, a politically oriented near-future dystopia tentatively entitled A More Perfect Union, and a "revised & expanded edition" of God Explains It All.

Not to mention writing occasional new entries for my blog: "Would Jesus Give a Rat's Ass About This."

So, it made more sense to launch an "author" page that would include ALL of my writing projects. If you're interested, I hope you will use the link below to check it out (and "follow" it).

https://www.facebook.com/purveyorofallthingsliteraryandtheological

Retired pastor and educator, Keith has published in a number of areas, including literature and theology. This page brings together all his writings.

03/16/2021

During a nice walk in the woods this morning at Warbler Vista in the Balcones Canyonland National Wildlife Refuge, I dictated some ideas for revising the section in GEIA when God is telling me how wrong-headed my thinking about the future is.

At the same time, I have some thoughts bouncing around in my head from a chapter I listened to yesterday in The Light of Other Days called "Confabulation."

Here's a sample of how those two are mixing in my mind:

G: The past exists only in memory, and the future doesn’t exist at all. It hasn’t happened yet, so I can’t know anything about it. For example, I don’t know what you’re going to do next. I have a pretty good idea based on your character and the history of your behavior up to this point, but you can always surprise me. You have free will.

K: Then how do you make things turn out the way you want them to?

G: I don’t. I can’t. I can’t make anyone do anything. I try to encourage you to act in certain ways, and I have a variety of tools at my disposal. But they’re all persuasive, not coercive.

K: So, the past lingers in our memories?

G: That’s right. Your past is in your memory. And you share certain parts of your past with others, though each of them remembers that past in his or her own way. You remember your own past, but not perfectly. You interpret it a lot, trying to make it all make sense and hang together. What you end up with isn't always factually accurate, but it is true to you.

K: What about your memory?

G: I remember everything that has ever happened to everyone and everything.

K: So, your memory contains the entire, exhaustive history of the Creation from the very beginning?

G: That’s right. And that plays a very important role in what will happen someday in terms of the New Creation. But we have a lot of other things to cover before we get there.

11/20/2019

Since I'm teaching 3 sections of a new prep at Lone Star this semester, that has taken all of my available time and energy. I haven't written a creative word in a couple of months.

I won't be teaching in the spring, so I hope to unleash a flood of new material related to either the Revised & Expanded Edition of God Explains It All or God Tales, my collection of Flannery O'Connoresque short stories.

04/25/2019

I'm up to 1200 words on the new conversation I'm writing about gender and human sexuality. Trying to keep my nose to the grindstone, but playing with Rainey is a serious temptation.

04/09/2019

I have finally decided to take the leap, despite the risks involved.

This afternoon I started writing a new conversation for the Revised & Expanded Edition of God Explains It All (it's either the 4th or 5th new one--that's the expanded part).

It's about gender and human sexuality.

02/15/2019

Check out this amazing feedback I just received from theologian and scholar Dr. George M. Atkinson:

"Your book has arrived and I have finished reading it! It's delightful, insightful, witty (sometimes snarky), appealing, provocative, open-ended, and I might as well start reading a thesaurus back to you! I liked it very much. I was particularly intrigued with your discussion about the ontological absence/presence/next-to-us nature of God. I have not heard or read these analogies before. I'm more familiar with the Hartshorne/Ogden discussions of panentheism, so this opened up some new perspectives for me.

I think the book could be very useful in introducing "non-religious" people to some Christian thinking, without having to go through a history of doctrine first. And it certainly is refreshing for those of us who are awash in that history. . .

My long-time interest in the theme of Christian hope leads me to ask if God is going to explain to you in some later conversation just where God is taking this whole delightful experiment of Creation. What, for instance, is God hoping for? Perhaps a hint or two here would ease the anxiety of us elderly, ease it into some more convincing hope that everything will turn out all right. And give us a more profound motivation and direction to act in the time that is given us."

01/24/2019

12/03/2018

Thanks for checking out God Explains It All, Loreen Lee. If you read any of the excerpts posted here, I would love to hear your feedback on them.

The full text is also available at no cost in digital form. The link is further down the page.

11/26/2018

Welcome to our Merry Band, Chuck! If you read any of the selections from GEIA, you'll see how truly unorthodox (but plausible) my personal theological perspective is.

11/25/2018

Welcome aboard, Randy!

11/24/2018

Welcome to GEIA, Matthew, Christy, and Kathy!