"Monkey Town" is Dayton, Tennessee, where Rachel lives. From the back cover: "Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith."
I gave this one to my roommate for her birthday. From the back cover: "Starving and pitiful, a mud-smeared kitten is rescued from the slums of New Delhi and transported to a life she could never have imagined. In a beautiful sanctuary overlooking the snow-capped Himalayas, she begins her new life as the Dalai Lama's cat."
My Sunday school class has decided to study this book, starting in a couple of weeks. From the dust jacket: "Aslan explores the reasons why the early Christian church preferred to promulgate an image of Jesus as a peaceful spiritual teacher rather than a politically conscious revolutionary. And he grapples with the riddle of how Jesus understood himself, the mystery that is at the heart of all subsequent claims about his divinity."YOUR TURN
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I am currently reading two books, THE ENOCH FACTOR and ZEALOT. I feel like I am living somewhat a parallel life with Steve McSwain (Enoch author and Aslan (Zealot) gives a very interesting "take" on Jesus. I will be picking up Linda Ronstadt's memoir at the library in the next day or two. I am interested in reading MONKEY TOWN also.
I'm just about finished with Alice Munro's latest collection of short stories.
I love the idea of someone rescuing a cat and then it makes its way to be the pet of the Dalai Lama!
Among other books, I am reading "Death, Dying and Dessert: Reflections on 20 Questions About Dying" by Susan Abel Lieberman.
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