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- Slouching toward Zion and More Lies
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: University of North Texas Press
summary
Robert 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 as well as being superbly crafted. Included in the collection are “The Rest of the Story,” wherein the author retells select Biblical stories and parables supplying heretofore expurgated details with an exquisitely agonizing truth; “Ten Mistakes God Made,” which treats with candor religious politics, elitism, and the unexplained nature of what makes us believe; “The Trouble with Eve” and “Redemption,” which are at heart stories of how one grapples with, avoids, questions, and finally resigns to—love; and “Chicken Soup for the Damned,” a fable corporate biography retelling of the Savior’s story. “Flynn’s prose cuts like St. Michael’s sword slicing through the smug heart of a believer too comfortable in his faith. He is to southern Baptists what Flannery O’Conner is to southern Catholics. He is raw, woolly, and wild-eyed, and very necessary.”—Jill A. Essbaum, Concordia University, author of Heaven
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vi
- The Trouble with Eve
- pp. 1-14
- Do You Have a Rapture Lawyer?
- pp. 15-16
- The Baptist Sex Position
- pp. 17-20
- Reasons for Being a Southern Baptist
- pp. 21-24
- Ten Mistakes that God Has Made
- pp. 25-30
- If You're There God, Pick Up
- pp. 31-36
- Questions Catholics Never Ask
- pp. 37-40
- Slouching toward Zion
- pp. 41-58
- Born-Again Jesus
- pp. 63-74
- Onan Comes In From the Cold
- pp. 83-96
- Questions Mormons Never Ask
- pp. 97-98
- Testimonial Time in the Baptist Church
- pp. 99-106
- The Rest of the Story
- pp. 107-112
- Next Year in Oberammergau
- pp. 113-120
- Mission to Mexico
- pp. 121-146
- Radio WWJS
- pp. 147-162
- Questions Secular Humanists Never Ask
- pp. 163-164
- Redemption
- pp. 165-176
- The Church Softball League
- pp. 177-180
- Chicken Soup for the Damned
- pp. 181-184
- Desert Duel
- pp. 185-207
Additional Information
ISBN
9781574414103
Related ISBN(s)
9781574411836
MARC Record
OCLC
59157499
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No