February 20, 2006
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Thank you for your prayers and kind words. I too am praying for a peaceful Monday.
Many of the libraries around the country are offering a service of emailing about the first 20 pages of a book in daily segments. You are allowed to choose the categories, and it is called an online book club. One of the choices this week in the fiction category saddened me, and I thought you might want to see the first installment. It is not one I want to read, and I was just about to delete it and forget it, but then I thought this is horrific. It falls along the line of the Book of Daniel TV show, for it mocks Christian ministers, so I figured you might want to see what I mean, here is the book jacket cover blurb.
The book club’s site is: http://www.dearreader.com/ and you can usually access it by your local library’s website. In all fairness, most of her selections are good and I have added to my “to read” list many selections from her entries, but this one saddened me incredibly.
Heather
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This week’s book:
PLAIN HEATHEN MISCHIEF
by Martin Clark
FROM THE BOOK JACKET:
“Plain Heathen Mischief” ups the existential ante, as Joel
King, a defrocked Baptist minister, finds life even more
bedeviling once he’s served six months for a career-ending
crime he might not even have committed. Now his incommun-
icado wife wants a divorce, the teenage vixen of his
disgrace is suing him for a cool $5 million, a fresh start
in Montana offers no hope for ex-cons of any religious
persuasion, and the refuge provided by his sister turns as
nasty as his parole officer.
Talk about a crisis of faith. On the upside, a solicitous
member of Joel’s former congregation invites him into a
scam that could yield some desperately needed cash, and
soon the down-on-his-luck preacher is involved with a
flock of charming con men, crooked lawyers, and conniving
youth.
Comments (7)
Blessings to you! I was not a aware of Libraries having that with books. That is intersting, thanks for the tip!
Have a happy Monday!
Very clever! And I also thought that this story is pretty pathetic and dumb. But I guess I’ve learned to not worry about cursing the darkness. They just don’t understand at all. All we can do in response is pray earnestly, and explain the Light, one person at a time. It’s good enough, too, because this exactly what the Light has told us to do.
Take care!
how are you , thankyou for your prayers, i would find offering the first few pages annoying !!
Sad.
Have a blessed day!
Michele
Thank you so much for your prayers & concern, I appreciate it very much!!!
(((hugs)))
That truly is sad. Have a wonderfule evening.
Love ya, Darlena
Thanks for stopping by and i agree on two fronts…yes Spring can come as quickly for me also…and the book does sound sad. Everytime a minister or a Christian is portrayed on TV or in the media, they are some strange off the wall person with a twisted mind or consuming habits that show them in a very bad way. But what else can we expect from satans influence in the world. Anyone who doesn’t believe in God or Christ will try and twist things around to help them feel more comfortable with their life styles. But as one of the other comments said, we continue to lift up Christ, to share Him one person at a time, to be a living example within our homes, our jobs, our schools and everywhere we go…be blessed and strengthened and hang on the the Lords wisdom conserning those kids….yer ol bro…)m(