Alvin Anderson

In my more than thirty years of teaching, I have always sought to clarify rather than mystify. I have tried to do the same in my little book God Is User Friendly. Some psychological principles are explained in terms that make them easy to understand, with applications to real life circumstances.

It is important to me for anything communicated in writing to make sense. Sometimes the best way to do that is through concrete illustrations and parallels. I find it very gratifying when I can make a spiritual application to a topic as mundane as computer technology or social psychology.

My wife, Lucy, and I have lived in eight developing countries. Inevitably some cross-cultural applications are evident in my illustrations. I hope readers will find these allusions informative and, hopefully, interesting.

We value family highly. When we meet someone who doesn't know us, I simply tell them that Lucy and I are the parents of Marva Hoopes, or Paul Anderson, or Stan Anderson, and that often makes a connection. For the younger set, if we inform them that we are the grandparents of Matt Hoopes—second vocalist of the "Relient K" Christian rock group—that gives us an honorable identity. Genealogy is my favorite hobby, and it is a welcome discovery to find a familial relationship, though perhaps distant, with someone I already know.

 

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