For most of his life, J. Edward’s faith was quiet and familiar — the kind you inherit growing up in church, without ever putting it to the test. That changed in 2005, when he was “born again” in midlife and, for the first time, began studying the Bible seriously instead of simply believing it from a distance.
What he found waiting for him wasn’t curiosity — it was resistance. Conversations with family, friends, and the wider secular world revealed a view of Scripture that was, in his words, “far different” from his own, and far different from the Bible itself. The same objections came up again and again: outdated, unreliable, a myth, a book overtaken by science and time.
After years of hearing those same arguments repeated, J. Edward decided someone needed to answer them directly — not with a theology degree, but with the tools he actually had: an NIV Bible, his church, a personal computer, and prayer. Time, Technology, Tolerance, and Truth is that answer.
A church-going childhood and private Christian schooling through junior high — and a casual faith that followed into adulthood.
A midlife turning point sparks serious study of the Bible — and years of hard conversations with a skeptical secular world.
With no formal training — just Scripture, prayer, and persistence — J. Edward writes the answer he wished someone had handed him.
