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Hardcover God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right Book

ISBN: 0977717003

ISBN13: 9780977717002

God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right

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Book Overview

In this multiple award-winning and bestselling diagnosis of the contemporary American spirit, David James Duncan suggests that the de facto political party embodied by the so-called Christian Right has turned worship into a self-righteous betrayal of the words and example of the very Jesus it claims to praise. In a bracing and often hilarious response to this trend, God Laughs & Plays offers churchless sermons, stories, memoir, conversations, and cosmological reflections that scorn riches and embrace the poor; bless peacemakers, not war-makers; celebrate creation, diversity, empathy, playfulness and beauty; and insist that Divine Mystery is indeed mysterious and compassion is literally compassionate. The spiritual kingdom described by Jesus, this unusual book reminds us, is located not in the Sky or beyond a disastrous future, but within us, to be sought and embodied in the here and now. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Kierkegaardian Conceits

For those of you familiar with David Duncan, who've been waiting for his next novel for the past decade and a half, this is another appetizer in the strain of "River Teeth" and "My Story As Told By Water." Yes. This is a political book by David James Duncan. Duncan waxes angrily eloquent about current American events in this small quaint, quilt of a book. He nearly always sticks to opinion, leaving sustained argument to...

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Breaking free from some fundamentalist chains

I actually believe that Jesus died and then came back to life. I always assumed this made me a fundamentalist Christian. However, the kind of fundamentalism that Duncan addresses in this book is much scarier than anything I have encountered at church. Yes, I have been and am recovering from some extreme forms of legalism that aren't part of the message of Jesus. But I maintain hope that most churches in America (protestant...

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Insightful, spiritual, and inspirational

With a thorough understanding of the spirit of religion, and a strong background in Christian, spiritual, and other historical sources, Duncan proceeds to disassemble the modern fundamentalist movement. Shining a light on the hypocracy of those who seek power, money, and attention in the name of God, Duncan defies the "Christian Right" by exposing them to The Bible -- not cherry-picked passages, but the essence of Jesus'...

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Maybe The Best Book I Have Read, Seriously

God Laughs & Plays by David James Duncan is one of the most extraordinary books I have ever had the pleasure of reading. And I was an English Literature major in college and graduate school, which means I have read a lot of books. A friend recommended this book to me. She said it was something very special. I bought a copy and read it. After I finished it, I read it again. From the first I was struck by the stucture...

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Astonishing. A Masterwork.

I don't know how to fully describe this book, or how to do justice to how wonderful it is. David James Duncan is a master writer, an incredible storyteller, and one of the best commentators of our times I have read. How often do you have the experience of reading a book that is as timely as it is timeless? Duncan pulls off this trick effortlessly. "Chapters like When Compassion Becomes Dissent" and "What Fundamentalists Need...

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