Thanks, Dan. Your father is well-remembered around here for his many contributions - a tireless and determined individual to the very end it sounds like! Peace and blessings of Christ to you and your families.
-Merv
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Please accept my condolences too. Our conversations were usually a little to the side of his real business but he was generous and open in all his responses.
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I look forward to continuing our discussions someday in heaven. He will be missed.
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I am glad he remembered this forum fondly even though I know I irritated him often. The battles were certainly memorable to me.
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thanks Dan for letting us know. our thoughts are with you. I only found his comments here a couple of weeks ago and found it reassuring that someone else is actually providing the substance for something I was thinking for a long time.
Our biggest problem with the bible is the attitude of people about those before us, to belittle them that they were primitive and made up stories to comfort themselves with fairy tales. Thereby it is the followup generations that comfort themselves with fairy tales of them being in control resembling the everlasting repeat of that story of the beginning in the garden of Eden, the story of the fall in the feeble attempt to reject the authority of the author over the self, puberty in a nutshell.
Glenn is now back under the ultimate authority and I think he has done a great deal to help us to understand the stories from the past and i wish you all the best that you can, in honouring the legacy of your dead, help others to better understand those who came before usand the love they passed on from the source they got it from.
By the sound of it your dad realised in the end that what we should worry about in our debate of origins is not the origin of life - as that gets everyone confused into materialistic thinking, but the origin of love. By the sound of it he fulfilled his purpose in life and passed on to you what life is all about, to pass on the essence of love.
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My condolences. I remember his first reply to my Flood topic . He has really helped in my journey to finding answers.He always reminded us tk get right with the Lord. May he find rest in the Lords arms . Prayers for your family 
. May the good God guide you
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I’m so sorry for your loss, Dan. Word’s fail at times like this but I pray that Christ would be your and the family’s hope and comfort at this time - Just as he was for your dad. Although we came from different perspectives, Glen’s commitment to the word of God and his desire to honour it as such was an inspiration to me and no doubt to others. As he now enjoys his reward and the delight of his Saviour, our loss is his gain.
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I’m so sorry to hear that. I’ve read, interacted with, and sometimes sparred with Glenn for probably close to 30 years. Even when we disagreed he was a great person to have around.
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I’m deeply saddened by Glenn’s passing, but your words make me smile through the tears. We didn’t correspond much while he was trying to finish the book, so our last real exchange was early June, not long after he started hospice care. He felt the end approaching and spent a great deal of time mourning for his sins.
Glenn: As death gets nearer, one thinks a bit more deeply about one’s own sin and what needs forgiveness, both from me, and to me. … I don’t think Christians realize how sin is in the very air we breathe and culture we swim in. There are times I don’t think I realized how utterly infected I am by this world–and I am a believer. We have no hope but Christ.
After some back-and-forth, I ended with this: “You’ve mourned long enough for your sins. Do me a favor. When you feel death knocking at the door, remember the good times and the joy in your life. Try to go out with a smile on your face.”
I’ll miss my sparring partner, but a better ending couldn’t be written:
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I thank God for Glenn Morton and his insights into putting things together from Scripture.
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I’m really sorry to hear about Glenn’s passing. My condolences to the family.
As I’ve read his posts here on this forum, I couldn’t help getting the impression that he very much felt a sense of urgency in what he was writing. Throughout it all, one point in particular kept coming through loud and clear: don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. It sounded to me that Glenn was quite passionate about driving home to us that in discarding young-earth and anti-evolution teachings we need to remember to hold on to what is good, and that we don’t need to, and shouldn’t, lose faith over it all. It’s people like him, bringing a message like that, that I find strengthening and encouraging, and for that I am most thankful.
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.” — 2 Timothy 4:7-8
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Glenn and I waged a debate on the old ASA listserv over Genesis that was often heated and lasted for months, but through our barbed responses we developed a mutual respect that became an enduring friendship. When I was in Houston I was staying at a friends house and invited Glenn to dinner. He brought a bottle of wine that he bought when he was in China. He was a great debater, a great mind, and a great friend. I will miss him.
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Dan,
No! I’m really sorry to hear this. I specifically came to Biologos a year ago as I was trying to find a way to reconcile the historicity of the Flood per Genesis to actual science. Out of all the posts I read, as he had a prominent and applied geological background, I found Glenn’s to be by far the most useful and compelling.
A few months ago, after a brief chat on the forums, I reached out to him directly by email. Not only did we discuss his theories on the flood and his finding about the specific one that took place about a million years ago, but we also conversed about our faith and life experiences. Like him, I also worked in the upstream oil and gas industry, and am based in Beijing. So, we shared about his experiences in China and the oil industry, traded blogs, even conversed a bit in Chinese!
Of course, he let us know that his health was failing, but I didn’t know it would be so fast. In his last email, he wrote:
“Hi XX, I much thank God for you because you are one of the few people who understand what I am trying to do and that means a lot to me. I have decided to turn the blog into a book, and am working hard on that right now. My editor comes back from vacation this weekend and I need to have the book ready for her, but I will read this before I go to bed. Oh, what the heck. read, read, read…”
I am so happy to hear he was able to get his book out before he passed. In fact, I just purchased it on Kindle and will read it soon. I’m a bit sad I didn’t get to interact with him more recently on his theories as I had recently been engorged in apologetics defense against the Ehrman/ Carrier/ Price crowd, which required a lot of reading and energy, but I planned to get back to the Genesis/ Flood apologetics afterward, with his theory as the most compelling.
God Bless to you and your family- Glenn was truly a great and humble man and I look forward to seeing his work and theories continue in the future. Even though I only shared a few emails with him, I will miss him greatly and am very sad he is gone. In our email correspondence, he was always kind and humble. As Paul advocated, he appeared to finish the race strong. His life was an inspirational Christian testimony to me and I’m saddened by the loss. God Bless.
-Rob L.
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I guess one further question to ask is, if we ever have any questions about his theories or writings, who should they be directed to?
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Hi Dan,
I am really sorry to hear this. I had the honour of being one of the most recent to have had discussion with your Dad on his ideas having only found Biologos and his posts a couple of months ago. I found his work fascinating with interesting ways of gathering information, and his openness to questions and discussion great. The depth of reply he was able to give to my total newcomer’s question so recently is testament to a person of great heart. Truly thankful to have had the opportunity to be in conversation with him.
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Hi Rob, this is Matt Morton, another of Glenn’s sons. First, thank you for your kind words about Dad. Second, as far as who to ask about his writings and theories, that’s a tough one. None of us kids are as knowledgeable about geology or physics as he was, so we won’t be much help there. He pretty much crafted all of these ideas on his own. That said, Dad and I discussed the biblical and theological side of his views a great deal (I’m a pastor). While I didn’t always share his views on OT interpretation, I have a fairly good understanding of his thought processes in that regard and I’m always willing to talk about them. Dad made me think and reevaluate my own understanding of the Scripture quite a lot, just as he did for many people here. I’m still in the process of reading his most recent book - we worked hard to get it published for him before he passed away, but in the days following his death I’ve only had time to read a couple of chapters. I’ll finish it up in the next week or two. So I guess I’d say I’m willing to chat with you, but I’d be coming at it as a learner and reader just as you are. My email address is mattmorton@grace-bible.org if you ever want to bounce any of his ideas around. I will probably check in here from time to time but not as often as Dad did. Blessings to you.
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Thank you for letting us know and for the fine tribute to your dad
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I thank God for Glenn. I will miss him.
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So sorry to hear this. I was always challenged by and benefited from Glenn’s writings, even if I was not always convinced or understood what he was saying. He was a real truth seeker. May Glenn Morton rest in the arms of His Savior.
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