In March, as winter fades in the mid-Atlantic, I will head northward to enjoy my last chances of the year to get frostbite.

March 5 through 7, I’ll be at Booth College in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for the college’s conversation series. It’ll be two nights and two days’ worth of me yakking about the book, Christian culture and criticism of both.

March 30 & 31, I’ll head back to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., for the biennial Festival of Faith & Music. I wrote about the last one in the book, and I’m looking forward to, among other things, uncomfortable dinner conversation with David Dark. I’m going to present a workshop (working title: “Ironic Mind Meets Literal Mind: Does pop culture owe Christian culture anything?”)

I stole the precolonic idea from Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great , an advance copy of which I’m reading and the title of which is self-explanatory. With the success of Sam Harris’ books and Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion (No. 17 on Amazon!), the appetite for these books seems to beg for a cover story in Time, at the very least. At my paper we’d give it a headline like “Creata Hatas,” but I’m sure they’ll do something classier.