I am fully aware that this is a TECHNOLOGY blog --- in fact, it’s even more narrow in that it’s an ACCOUNTING TECHNOLOGY blog --- so what the heck is a book plug doing here? Well, first let me assure that I have not gone completely crackers and I still think the religious right is a bit wacko. But the specificity of TheTechGap and my mental state really do allow this post. Honest!
Michael Bodner is known to many of you as a former VP of Development at Thomson Reuters Creative Solutions. I worked closely with Michael when I was VP of Product Strategy there and many of the breakthrough products that are so popular in the profession had roots from out team collaboration. Examples would include FileCabinet, Virtual Office, Client Portals, etc. Although Michael in no longer working in the “accounting” part of technology, he has remained a mainstay popular speaker at the AICPA TECH+ Conference. He is also 1) a dear friend and 2) the smartest person I’ve ever known. His doctorate in is theoretical physics and he has a Hawking-like ability to explain very (very) complex concepts in terms that even I can understand --- well, for a while, anyway.
Bodner’s book, “A Quantum Leap of Faith” is an exquisite marriage of science and religion --- a reconciliation of Genesis to the Big Bang Theory. If you are, as I am, troubled by or are simply curious about how science can coexist with the Bible, then this is a book you do NOT want to miss. In the introduction Michael describes his experience teaching this material at an Presbyterian church in Ann Arbor. That was my church and I watched as the crowds grew larger week after week --- it was an amazing series!
I personally guarantee this to be a GREAT READ. Enjoy.
gll
