Wow, that April Fool’s joke turned out much better than I anticipated! What really blew me away (and is still bothering me a bit) is that it was even plausible to my friends. No one emailed me and said “Nuh ah!” I’m apparently a better liar than I thought.

Thanks for all your kind words but Desiring God is not producing a monthly magazine and they surely aren’t desperate enough to ask some no name blogger to write for them. This story is too Cinderella to be real.

Yesterday when I got home from work I picked up the mail. As I sorted through it, I saw a letter from Desiring God Ministries. No big deal, since I’m a supporter I get regular updates from them all the time. I chucked it and the bills on my desk. I’d take care of the whole stack after dinner. First of the month is bill time. It is also budget time so I didn’t get to the DGM letter before bed time. I threw it in my bag figuring I’d read it on the way in to work in the morning and I could also pray for whatever was in the letter.

So I got on the train this morning and I opened the letter. It wasn’t like the normal bulk mailers I get from DGM. This was a letter from Jon Bloom, the Executive Director of DGM and it sounded personal. It turns out that DGM is going to start a monthly magazine. Jon explained it as “somewhere between Modern Reformation and Books & Culture with John’s [Piper] emphasis on God’s glory” seasoning the articles. He also mentioned that DA Carson would be one of the managing editors. Carson wants a magazine like Christianity Today as it was when Carl F. H. Henry edited it.

Anyway, after explaining the new magazine, Jon explained that someone provided him a link to an article on my blog! How cool is that? Jon read the article and like it and he said that he spent a hour or so looking around and reading more. He likes my writing style and my perspective and he asked if I could submit some more samples of my writing. They want me to write for Desiring God Magazine! Well, they might want me to depending on the samples of my work I submit. Jon gave me his phone number and wants me to call him soon so we can talk. He said he didn’t email me since he didn’t want me to think his email was some kind of April Fool’s prank or something.