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A Pilgrim's Digress: My Perilous, Fumbling Quest for the Celestial City

A Pilgrim's Digress: My Perilous, Fumbling Quest for the Celestial City


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In the hilarious tradition of David Sedaris and David Rakoff, and with Plimpton-esque flavor, John Spalding details in A Pilgrim's Digress his journey as a modern-day "pilgrim" seeking the Celestial City. Loosely organizing his book according to Bunyan's classic Pilgrim's Progress, Spalding describes how he spent three days as a preacher in Times Square ("Excuse me, do you know you're going to hell?"); went to the mat (conversationally) with Omega and Apocalypse, two mainstays of the Christian Wrestling Federation; and talked to a man who practiced the art of trepanation by drilling a hole in his head to make himself permanently happy. He also experienced his own funeral, courtesy of the Dying to Get In Company.Funny, wry, and revealing, the stories in A Pilgrim's Digress describe one man's quest for the righteous path and what he discovers about the country's spiritual zeitgeist.

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"An insouciant collection . . . Spalding writes in the great theological tradition of Hunter S. Thompson, Woody Allen, and P. J. O'Rourke." --John Wilson, Christianity Today "John Spalding's brisk tour of Vanity Fair shows that idolatry is as fashionable today as it ever was. Readers who take their Christianity seriously will find hope in his unsparing, hilarious iconoclasm."--James Wilcox, author of Modern Baptists "Armed with a marvelously irreverent sense of humor, John Spalding explores the public and private faces of religion. In episode after episode on his journey, he punctures pomposity with illuminating shafts of light while raising to consciousness the very reality that religion so often exists to hide. I smiled constantly as I read this book. Healthy people will love it, while others will discover that being able to laugh at oneself is not generally a virtue of the deeply pious." --John Shelby Spong, author of A New Christianity for a New World "Many through history have unintentionally made religion hilarious. John Spalding does it deliberately and does it very well. His book will appeal to anyone who truly believes--in having a good laugh."--Gregg Easterbrook, author of The Here and the Now


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781400046539
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Harmony Books
  • Height: 235 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: My Perilous, Fumbling Quest for the Celestial City
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 140004653X
  • Publisher Date: 04 Mar 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 354 gr


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