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The Jerusalem Syndromeby Marc Maron
Broadway Books 2002; US$ 11.99The Gospel according to Maron: a spiritual memoir of your average hyperintelligent, ultraneurotic, superhip Jewish standup comedian and seeker. The Jerusalem Syndrome is a genuine psychological phenomenon that often strikes visitors to the Holy Land_the delusion that they are suddenly direct vessels for the voice of God. Marc Maron seems to have a distinctly American version of the Jerusalem Syndrome, which has led him on a lifelong quest for religious significance and revelation in the most unlikely of places. Maron riffs on Beat phenomena with its sacred texts, established rituals, and prescribed pilgrimages. He spends some time exploring the dark side of things, as his obsessions with cocaine (known to Maron as “magic powder”),... more...
When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops?by George Carlin
Hyperion 2004; US$ 13.99On the heels of George Carlin's #1 New York Times bestseller Napalm and Silly Putty comes When Will Jesus Bring The Porkchops? ? infused with Carlin's trademark irreverent humor and biting cultural observations. Carlin offers his opinion on everything from evasive euphemistic language to politicians to the media to dead people. Nothing and no one is safe! more...
Saints Behaving Badlyby Thomas J. Craughwell
Doubleday Publishing 2006; US$ 10.99From thieves and extortionists to mass murderers and warmongers, up-close and embarrassingly personal snapshots of those sanctified people with the most unsaintly pasts in the history of Christianity. Saints are not born, they are made. And many, as Saints Behaving Badly reveals, were made of very rough materials indeed. The first book to lay bare the less than saintly behavior of thirty-two venerated holy men and women, it presents the scandalous, spicy, and sleazy detours they took on the road to sainthood.In nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings about the lives of the saints, authors tended to go out of their way to sanitize their stories, often glossing over the more embarrassing cases with phrases such as, “he/she was once... more...
The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Rightby Robert Lanham
Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 11.99From Bibles designed to look like glossy fashion magazines to mega-churches with ATMs, rock climbing walls, and in one case, a drive-thru McDonalds, the nuances of conservative evangelical culture are no mystery to Robert Lanham, who has his roots in the Bible Belt. Now, with his anthropological eye and trademark wit, Lanham has compiled a handy guide to the evangelical right for those who can expect to be left behind in the End of Days. more...
Let's Laughby C. Peter Wagner
Treasures Media Inc 2007; US$ 10.49You like to laugh! You want to laugh! So Laugh! A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. (Pro 17:22) Laughing makes your heart happy. But laughing is more than something we like to do. We need to laugh. Laughing: ? Brightens our perspective. ? Improves our health. ? Lightens our fear and depression. Let?s Laugh will release you to laugh and teach how to make others laugh as well. No matter whether your ?audience? is a room full of executives, coworkers, or family around the kitchen table, you will learn how laughter will change any situation into one that makes people smile every time they remember you. Not just another ?book of jokes,? Let?s Laugh is a collection of experiences... more...
The Gospel According to Dogsby Robert L. Short
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 9.99Bestselling author of The Gospel According to Peanuts Robert Short reveals what man's best friend can teach us about life. Dogs do much more than just keep us company and give us love and attention—they are models for how we can live better lives as humans. From humility and obedience to singleness of purpose and unconditional love, Short shows us how we can learn from the remarkable qualities of dogs. Using examples from more than forty classic comic strips, including Peanuts, Blondie, Family Circus, Luann, Mother Goose & Grimm, Fred Basset , and more, as well as charming photographs of real dogs, The Gospel According to Dogs is a delight-fully entertaining book for dog lovers, comic enthusiasts, and anyone looking for reassuring... more...
The World's Funniest Proverbsby James Alexander
Crombie Jardine 2007; US$ 9.99This collection of funny sayings from around the world - covering subjects from pessimism and money to happiness, drink and getting old - is an ideal gift, impulse buy or Christmas present, guaranteed to raise a laugh. Short sayings based on long experience - there are stacks here for you to enjoy! more...
The Year of Living Biblicallyby A. J. Jacobs
Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 12.99From the bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to play a ten-string harp; to stone adulterers. The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal and will make you see history's most influential book... more...
Foreskin's Lamentby Shalom Auslander
Penguin Group Inc. 2007; US$ 12.99A New York Times Notable Book, and a “chaotic, laugh riot”( San Francisco Chronicle ) of a memoir— first time in trade paperback. Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion and its traditions, he could not find the path to a life where he didn’t struggle daily with the fear of God’s formidable wrath. Foreskin’s Lament reveals Auslander’s “painfully, cripplingly, incurably, miserably religious” youth in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox community, and recounts his rebellion and efforts to make a new life apart from it. His combination of unrelenting humor and anger renders a rich and fascinating... more...
Slouching Toward Zion and More Liesby Robert Flynn
University of North Texas Press 2004; US$ 19.96Robert Flynn has gathered twenty-three stories that have hope, faith, and love as their common denominator. They are funny, political, and more than a bit prophetic. more...









