This book was a big disappointment for me. The writing is competent, but there's no real story. This is just another evangelical anti-intellectual sermon. People of faith can do better than this.What puzzles me is the author marquees his academic credentials, but his content rarely rises above Sunday school quality. It's just straw men and straw arguments, which the character of "Jesus" here backhandedly knocks down with a smugness that is extremely unappealing. The author's oversimplification of other religions is ludicrous.Think how much more interesting the dialogue would be if this "Jesus" could have dinner with the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Richard Dawkins, or even non-evangelical Christian thinkers like Karen Armstrong and Marcus Borg...But the intent here was never intellectual honesty.