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Title: 365 Ways to Criticize the Preacher: A Very Short Novel by Pat Jobe ISBN: 1-57312-361-7 Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Pub Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $12.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (10 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Email from Baptist Preacher
Comment: "I laughed.  I cried.  I felt.  I thought.  And I don't do any of those easily or naturally."  Those are my initial reactions to "365 Ways to Criticize the Preacher."  I bought the book in February at the Mainstream Baptist Network meeting in Birmingham.  Being a Baptist preacher, I scanned it, curious that there were that many ways to tell me and my type that we weren't doing it right!  To my pleasant surprise, it is one of the best things I have read in a long time.  I only have about two dozen Beverly Roberts types in my current church and more than that in my last one.  More frightening than that, I slip into some of those behaviors as I get older.  As I read, I was reminded of Archie Bunker, and how Normal Lear invited America to look at the absurdities of his character.  Occasionally, the better side of Archie would come through, but not for long.  Your character experienced redemption, but was still in the process at the end (i.e., "I still don't like his haircut.")  I have finished the book and am ordering five more copies for friends and to put in the church library.   I thank you so much for the book.

Rating: 5
Summary: Going Home Again
Comment: You have got to read this book. It's a rule, or maybe even a Commandment.

If you're a misplaced son or daughter of the South, or more specifically Southern-style religion, then let Beverly Roberts and the Rev. Arnold Chister be the first to welcome you home. In 365 Ways to Criticize the Preacher, author Pat Job has woven the realities and fantasies of one faded daughter of the once noble homeland into a web of genteel seduction. No matter how hard you try to maintain your new age distance from that old time religion, you don't stand a chance of escaping the gospel according to Jobe.

Laugh at the one-liners, nod your head knowingly at the parade of small town characters straight out of your own experience, enjoy the time you spend certain that Beverly Roberts is right or wrong -- go ahead, take your time. The good Reverend can wait -- wait until you've laughed and cried yourself into oneness with the truth he has woven for you. He can wait until the reader's journey becomes inseparable from Beverly's own. And he will still be waiting when you reach the end of this short, powerful epic and find yourself shadow-dancing backward into the arms of grace right along with her.

Pat Jobe dares to expose the wastelands of his own religious background to bring us back to the original truth that love has always been the only answer to all our questions. Whatever personal enlightenment you find visiting the Grand Canyon with Beverly Roberts, you will never be the same.

Rating: 5
Summary: Laughed and cried
Comment: A note to Pat Jobe: When the Bubbas appeared at the Purple Onion earlier this year, I bought your book "365 Ways to Criticize the Preacher". 
I have just finished reading it and wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed it.  It would be great if we could all be
transformed as much as Beverly Roberts and know, as she seems to, that the process is never over.
 
Being the liberal Episcopalian that I am, I laughed and cried (sometimes simultaneously) as you lampooned some of our
personal expectations of who is "in" and who is "out".
 
It was a joy to read and I thank you for it.

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